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Congress Slams Nuclear Agency for Recent Failures
April 14, 2014 -
Growing Concerns Over Deregulation of Arms Export Controls
April 7, 2014 -
Intelligence Official Cited for “Unauthorized Disclosure” to Congress: Oversight on the Rocks
March 25, 2014 -
Screening of Rumsfeld Documentary Sparks Discussion About Government Secrecy
March 24, 2014 -
More Fantasy Budgeting From the Pentagon
March 7, 2014 -
Outsmarting the MOX
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Pentagon Looking to Cut F-35 Buy
February 21, 2014 -
Here’s What 60 Minutes Didn’t Tell You About the F-35
February 19, 2014 -
Y-12 Protestors “Destroyed the Mystique” of Nuclear Security
February 19, 2014
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March 24, 2014
Screening of Rumsfeld Documentary Sparks Discussion About Government Secrecy
The Unknown Known documentary brings Rumsfeld national security memos to the big screen.
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Topics: National Security
March 19, 2014
By Neil Gordon
Afghanistan Watchdog Sinks Teeth Into Scrapped Incinerators
The Afghanistan reconstruction watchdog has launched a formal inquiry into an ill-fated U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contract to build waste incinerators at Forward Operating Base Sharana.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
March 19, 2014
U.S. Joins International Effort to Bring Transparency to Drilling, Mining Industries
An international organization working to bring greater transparency and accountability to industries that extract natural resources accepted the U.S. as a candidate for membership at a meeting of its board today in Oslo, Norway.
Topics: Energy and Natural Resources
March 17, 2014
By Neil Gordon
Entrusting Afghanistan Aid Oversight to Contractors
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is about to put contractors in charge of overseeing the billions of dollars invested in Afghanistan reconstruction. Is this a good idea?
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Topics: Contract Oversight
March 14, 2014
Obama Promises to Declassify CIA Torture Report
President Obama has pledged to declassify the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s (SSCI) headline-making report about the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) interrogation techniques.
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Topics: Open Government
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