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Here’s What 60 Minutes Didn’t Tell You About the F-35
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90 Seconds on Waste at the Dept. of Energy
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What the Pentagon Looks Like Under Sequestration Cuts
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Video: The Fight Over the Pentagon's Newest Jet
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'War on Whistleblowers' Shows Heroes Pay Heavy Price
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New Movie Investigates the War on Whistleblowers
February 25, 2013
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November 19, 2013
State Dept. Won’t Name Advisers Already in Government’s Public Database
For four months, the State Department has refused to say which outside experts are working for the Department as special government employees (SGEs), ProPublica reported last week. Yet, the Project On Government Oversight was able to find more than 100 of the advisers identified as SGEs in an online government database. In other words, some of the information that State has been refusing to provide is hiding in plain sight.
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Topics: Government Accountability
November 19, 2013
POGO on Local News to Stop F-35s in Vermont
Project On Government Oversight Executive Director Danielle Brian appeared on Vermont local news this week to talk about why the Air Force’s F-35 fighter jet should not be based in the highly populated area of Burlington.
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Topics: National Security
November 18, 2013
Pentagon-Funded Clinic Closes in Afghanistan
A hospital in Afghanistan that received a $750,000 investment from the Pentagon and hoped to be a model for quality, low-cost medical care is shutting down six years after it opened.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
November 15, 2013
At the Pentagon, “The Price is Wrong”
Representative Jackie Speier recently played the game, “The Price is Wrong,” on the House Floor in order to highlight cases in which
government contractors are overbilling the federal government hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
November 15, 2013
By Joe Newman
Gen. Who Intimidated Whistleblowers Not Fit to Oversee Army’s Sexual Assault Policy
Allegations that an Army general intimidated whistleblowers while on a NATO deployment in Afghanistan make him unfit for his current job of overseeing the Pentagon’s sexual assault policy, the Project On Government Oversight said Friday in a letter to Secr
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Topics: Whistleblower Protections
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