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Cell Phone Services Show Broken Buying System
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Veterans Affairs Announces Plan to Reduce Claims Backlog
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Government Wasting Tens of Billions Through Duplicative Programs
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VA Healthcare System Failing Veterans, Study Says
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Jon Stewart Tears Into "Criminal" VA Backlog
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Inspectors General Receive Much-Needed Attention in Senate
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Watchdogs Not Immune from Sequestration Cuts
March 19, 2013
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April 29, 2013
CIA Used Bags of Cash to Buy Influence in Afghanistan
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been giving the office of Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s president, secret deliveries of cash for more than a decade, according to an article in The New York Times.
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Topics: National Security
April 26, 2013
Still Fighting to Expose Secret Law
POGO joined an amicus brief written by the Electronic Privacy Information Center supporting The New York Times in its effort to obtain a memorandum written by the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel regarding the legality of the targeted killin
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Topics: Open Government
April 26, 2013
By Neil Gordon
Afghanistan Incinerators Burn Money, Not Trash
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) found that the government wasted $5 million on an unused solid waste incineration system on Forward Operating Base Salerno. The base continues to dispose of its solid waste in dangerous o
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Topics: Contract Oversight
April 25, 2013
Another Former Lockheed Employee Takes Key Senate job
Another former Hill staffer with Lockheed Martin on their resume will fill the job of Republican staff director for the Senate Armed Services Committee, according to an article in ProPublica.
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Topics: National Security
April 25, 2013
Feds Continue to Pay for Empty Bank Accounts
The federal government will spend at least $890,000 this year on fees for empty bank accounts, according to an article in The Washington Post.
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Topics: Government Accountability
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