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USASpending.gov: NOT Your One-Stop Shop for Following Taxpayer Dollars
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Ten Questions That USASpending.Gov Can’t Answer
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Security Laws Must Include Transparency and Accountability
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Illegal Foreclosures Are Corporate Trade Secrets?
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Still Fighting to Expose Secret Law
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Obama Administration Grades Openness Performance on a Curve
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FOIA Failings Continue
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When Over-Classification Starts Wars
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Friend of the Court: POGO Joins Fight for Sunshine
April 3, 2013
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May 7, 2013
By Neil Gordon
If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try Again…and Again…and Again
For the fourth time since 2007, Congress will try to pass a measure that will prevent companies and individuals who owe taxes from being awarded federal contracts.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
May 6, 2013
For Whistleblowers, Fraying Protection
Ten years ago, advocates, funders, journalists and citizens gathered in an effort to champion the rights of whistleblowers. We saw a brighter future for truth-tellers, but sadly, ten years later, we fear that we may have, in fact, lost ground.
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Topics: Whistleblower Protections
May 3, 2013
Illegal Foreclosures Are Corporate Trade Secrets?
Federal agencies are withholding information about the illegal foreclosure practices of mortgage companies from Members of Congress, relying on justifications that closely track those used to withhold documents from the general public under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Topics: Open Government
May 1, 2013
Rep. Coffman to Appropriators: Cut Pentagon Pork
Rep. Mike Coffman sent a letter to the House Appropriations Committee and the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee asking them to replace sequestration with "responsible reductions to the defense budget."
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Topics: National Security
April 30, 2013
A Nun, a House Painter, and a Drifter Walk into a Nuclear Complex
It sounds like the start of an absurd joke, but that’s what happened last summer at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee. Three peace activists broke into one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities in the U.S., often called the Fort Knox of Uranium.
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Topics: National Security
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In March 2011, AllGov reported that DARPA, the Pentagon's premier research arm, had awarded a contract to a company founded by the agency's director. Wired's Spencer Ackerman joined POGO staffers to discuss how it all went down.
