POGO Alert - The Earmark from Nowhere; $90 million earmark remains “classified,”
April 25, 2007.

POGO Alert - Who Will Blink First? White House and OSC Investigate Each Other: Bloch Must Recuse Himself, April 24, 2007.

POGO Alert - POGO to Testify Before House Homeland Security Committee, April 17, 2007.

POGO Alert - The U.S. Missile Defense System - It Can't Stand the Rain; POGO Sources Report that Rainfall Has Wiped Out 25% of U.S. Missile Defense Launch Capability, March 26, 2007.

POGO Alert – “New” LANL Management Can’t Get a Grip on Cyber-Security Issues, March 22, 2007.

POGO Alert – Los Alamos Employees Send SOS to Congress, March 21, 2007.

POGO Alert - POGO Calls for Congress to Protect Whistleblowers Despite White House Veto Threat, March 14, 2007.

POGO Alert - POGO Urges NRC to Approve New Protections for Power Plant Security Officers; Long-overdue Rules Acknowledge the Role of Worker Fatigue, March 12, 2007.

POGO Alert - GSA Hired CACI to Process Suspension and Debarment Cases. February 5, 2007. 

POGO Alert - POGO Disgusted by DOI’s ‘Honor System’ for Big Oil Companies, January 18, 2007.

POGO Alert - POGO Releases Its “Bakers Dozen” of Issues for Congress in 2007, January 5, 2007.

POGO Alert – Project On Government Oversight Calls Resignation of NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks a Good Move, January 4, 2007.

2006


POGO Alert – Acquisition Panel Wraps Up: What does it all mean?,  December 22, 2006. To learn more, read the Panel's final report.

POGO Alert - POGO Urges Congressional Hearings into No-bid Commercial Items Contract; DoD Inspector General Report Finds Nine-Year Contract a Boondoggle for Hamilton Sundstrand, November 30, 2006.

POGO Alert - Interior Dept. Officials Told Auditor Not to Bill Oil Company; Jury Trial Scheduled in False Claims Act Case, November 17, 2006.

POGO Alert - POGO Applauds Senate Legislation Extending SIGIR's Term, November 15, 2006.

POGO Alert - British Embassy Has Questions about Latest LANL Security Breach; Internal Emails from DOE Show the U.K. Following Up on News Reports, November 1, 2006.

POGO Alert - Department of Homeland Security Violates Whistleblower Protection Laws; TSA Fired Air Marshal for Exposing Operational Plan that Endangered Public Safety, October 30, 2006.

POGO Alert - Los Alamos Classified Info Found in Drug Raid, October 25, 2006.

POGO Alert - POGO Report Finds Security Is A Moving Target at the Nation's Major HEU Storage Facility, October 16, 2006.

POGO Alert - POGO Disgusted by Reports of Retaliation Against Interior Department Auditors, September 21, 2006.

POGO Alert - POGO Finds Steep Drop in Royalties Collected by MMS, September 14, 2006.

POGO Alert - Leaked Docs: Los Alamos Safety Foibles Result in Largest Estimated Fine Ever, September 12, 2006.

POGO Alert - POGO Calls for TSA to Open Up Pre-9/11 Security Information; Agency Needs to Open Information that Has Been Mislabeled as “Sensitive”, September 11, 2006.

POGO Alert - Security Lapse at TVA’s Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant, August 15, 2006.

POGO Alert - POGO Slams Decision Not to Investigate Recent Accident at LANL, August 3, 2006.

POGO Alert - Financial Conflicts of Interest Plague Institute for Defense Analyses' F-22A Report; POGO Testifies to Senate: Withdraw Multiyear Procurement Program, July 25, 2006.

POGO Alert - Members of Congress Question Interior Department re: Royalties, July 24, 2006.

POGO Alert - GAO Report Echoes POGO’s Concerns with the DHS Katrina Purchase Card Program, July 19, 2006.

POGO Alert - POGO Calls for Federal Investigation of the "Big Dig". July 11, 2006.

POGO Alert - POGO Calls on Congress to Stop the Department of Homeland Security from Mislabeling Average Information as “Sensitive.” July 7, 2006.

POGO Alert - Subpoena to Rumsfeld from House Government Reform Committee – Answers Demanded re: Abu Ghraib, July 5, 2006.

POGO Alert - Lockheed Martin Uses Questionable Facts to Steer Spending Bill, June 16, 2006.

POGO Alert - POGO Urges Congress to Restore Funding for Equipment Being Used in Iraq War, June 6, 2006.

POGO Alert - Defense Inspector General Originally Hid Boeing Role in Scandal Report; White House and Congress' Roles in Tanker Lease Deal Still Unclear, May 25, 2006.

POGO Alert - POGO Says FannieMae Case Shows Whistleblowers Still Subject to Retaliation, May 23, 2006.

POGO Alert - POGO Comment on Boeing Settlement, May 15, 2006.

POGO Alert - Project On Government Oversight Honors Outstanding Individuals for  Promoting Good Government; Honorees Include Elected Officials, Government Whistleblowers and Investigative Journalists, May 4, 2006.

POGO Alert - POGO Releases Its "Greatest Hits" and Announces Awards for Promoters of Good Government. May 3, 2006.

POGO Alert - POGO Questions Senate's Move to Fund Troubled Aviation Programs Instead of Supporting War Fighters, April 26, 2006.

POGO Alert - POGO Announces Additions to Staff, April 7, 2006.

POGO Alert - POGO Hails Introduction of Davis-Waxman Legislation; Calls the "Executive Branch Reform Act of 2006" a Landmark Step On the Road to Open Government, April 6, 2006.

POGO Alert - POGO Report Uncovers Bajagua's Murky Deal, April 4, 2006.

POGO Alert - Nuke Plants Not Protected Against RPGs, February 22, 2006.

POGO Alert - Oil Industry Tycoon Disputes Royalty Claims Made by Government, February 15, 2006.

POGO Alert - POGO Testifies before Congress: Without Protections Against Retaliation, Whistleblowers Will Leak to News Media, February 13, 2006.

POGO Alert - Ethics Office Proposes Revolving Door Rule Changes, January 31, 2006.

POGO Alert - Lobbyists, Defense Contractors Held Holiday Party for House Government Reform Committee, January 13, 2006.

POGO Alert - Investigations into Katrina Waste and Fraud Detailed, January 12, 2006.

POGO Alert - Government Report: National Security Whistleblower Protections Have Failed, January 5, 2006.

2005

POGO Alert - U.S. Strong Arms Mexican Government on Water Project: Political Influence Behind $600 Million No-Bid Contract. December 21, 2005.

POGO Alert - Bureau of Prisons Retaliates – Puts Whistleblower in Danger, December 14, 2005.

POGO Alert - Porkbarrel for Boeing: Senate Amendment to Keep C-17 Cargo Jet Production Line Open, November 10, 2005.

POGO Alert - Revolving Door Working Group – Coalition of 18 diverse groups releases report “A Matter of Trust” warning that the revolving door is giving business interests undue influence over federal policy and procurement decisions. October 26, 2005.

POGO Alert - V-22 Engines Freeze: Can't Fly Through Clouds, October 25, 2005.

POGO Alert - POGO Urges Supreme Court to Consider State Secrets Case. POGO joined other organizations in urging the Supreme Court to examine whether the State Secrets Privilege is constitutional, October 10, 2005.

POGO Alert - White House Backs Down on $250K Government Purchase Card Limit, October 3, 2005.

POGO Alert - Republicans Embrace Whistleblower Protections for Contractors, Baggage Screeners National Security Whistleblowers Left Behind, September 29, 2005.

POGO Alert - National Security Whistleblowers Criticize Legislative Markup As Pentagon Blocks Able Danger Testimony, September 21, 2005.

POGO Alert - “Disaster Profiteering Act (H.R. 3766)” Makes Its Debut Seeks to Waive Taxpayer Protections & Competition on Government Contracts, September 16, 2005.

POGO Alert - Electromagnetic Pulse Boogey Man, September 9, 2005. Private interests are pushing for more funding to defend against an unlikely terrorist threat.

POGO Alert - Katrina Relief Bill: Contractor Pigs at the Trough, September 8, 2005.

POGO Alert - Former Head of FEMA Lobbies for Disaster Relief for Halliburton, September 7, 2005.

POGO Alert - Controversial Nuclear Security Report Released, September 2, 2005.

POGO Alert - Pentagon Inspector General Resigns, August 31, 2005.

POGO Alert - GAO: Government Should Disclose Info about Lawbreaking Contractors, August 29, 2005.

POGO Alert - Los Alamos Workers Exposed to Hazardous Fumes, August 10, 2005.

POGO Alert - Radioactive Package Shipped Fedex to Pennsylvania , August 8, 2005.

POGO Alert - Sandia Employee Charges Robotic Dog, iPods, and Computers to Federal Government, Then Resells, July 28, 2005.

POGO Alert - Energy Bill: Contractors to Pay More Litigation Costs, July 28, 2005.

POGO Alert - Los Alamos Whistleblower Assaulted Days Before Congressional Investigators Arrive to Interview Him, June 6, 2005.

POGO Alert - Congress Moves to Consolidate Nuclear Weapons Materials. May 19, 2005.

POGO Alert - Groups Urge Funding for Secrecy Oversight Board, May 3, 2005.

POGO Alert - Taxpayer Groups Tell Chambliss C-130J Transport Aircraft Pork Shouldn’t Fly, April 29, 2005.

POGO Alert - Government Fails to Protect Employees Who Blow Whistle on National and Homeland Security, April 28, 2005.

POGO Alert - Statement on the Army's New Stryker Video, April 21, 2005.

POGO Alert - POGO and Public Citizen Urge Court to Open Hearing on Sibel Edmonds Case, April 20, 2005.

POGO Alert - Future Combat System to be Restructured, April 5, 2005.

POGO Alert - FBI to Investigate Whistleblower Protection Agency: New Complaint Charges Partisanship in Enforcement of Hatch Act, March 31, 2005.

POGO Alert - Leaked Report: Stryker Armored Vehicle. An internal Army report reveals that the Stryker Interim Armored Vehicle has been only 50 percent effective overall against Rocket Propelled Grenades during combat in Iraq. March 31, 2005.

POGO Alert - McCain Puts Spotlight on Pentagon Contracts. March 15, 2005.

POGO Alert - Sunshine Week - Open Government Experts Available. March 14, 2005.

POGO Alert - Legendary fighter pilot and designer says the F/A-22 Raptor is the wrong weapon at the wrong time. March 11, 2005.

POGO Alert - Special Counsel Tags Interns to Close Out Whistleblower Cases, March 9, 2005.

POGO Alert - Government's Timeout System Needs Reform, March 4, 2005.

POGO Alert - Whistleblower Staff Blow the Whistle on Special Counsel, March 3, 2005.

POGO Alert - Sandia Fails to Protect Public from Nuclear Release, February 25, 2005.

POGO Alert - Justice Department Caves In: Allows Publication of Retroactively Classified Information, February 22, 2005.

POGO Alert - Ex Boeing Official Sentenced to Four Months in Prison, February 18, 2005.

POGO Investigative Lead - Lockheed Keeps Pentagon in Dark on C-130J? February 11, 2005

POGO Alert - McCain: Pentagon Stonewalls Tanker Investigation, January 31, 2005.

POGO Alert - Contracting Advisory Panel Deck Stacked. January 31, 2005.

9/11 Victims’ Families and National Security Whistleblowers Demand End to Government Silencing of Employees Who Expose Security Risks, January 26, 2005.

POGO Alert - C-130J Flunks Testing, January 24, 2005.

POGO Alert - New GAO Report: Contracts Promoted by Industry Waste Money. January 21, 2005.

POGO Alert - New Vindication for FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. January 14, 2005.

POGO Alert - Homeland Security Secrecy Policy Still Overreaching. January 12, 2005.

POGO Alert - Staff "Purge" at Office of Special Counsel Whistleblower Staff Claiming Retaliation Forced Moves to New "Midwest Field Office," January 10, 2005.


2004


POGO Alert - POGO Urges Department of Energy to Hold New Manager of Los Alamos Accountable. December 1, 2004.

POGO Alert - Unreleased Document: Pentagon Updates Revolving Door Rules. November 19, 2004.

POGO Alert - Gonzales Record on Government Secrecy. Justice Department appointee has record of silencing whistleblowers. November 16, 2004.

POGO Alert - Nuclear Power Plant Security Requirements Fall Short On October 29 Deadline. October 29, 2004.

POGO Alert- Wackenhut Guards Almost Shot During Nuclear Security Test. October 23, 2004.

POGO Alert - Jail Sentence for Darleen Druyun is warranted, POGO says. October 1, 2004.

POGO announces its recipient of the 2004 Beyond the Headlines Award, nuclear power plant security guard Anthony Rizzo, Jr. September 29, 2004.

POGO Opposes Proposed Changes to Gas Valuation Rule. September 22, 2004.

POGO Alert - Leaked Email Shows Nuke Officials Want Speed Over Safety at Los Alamos. August 26, 2004.

Government Secrecy Increases 60%, Costs $6.5 Billion Annually. New report by coalition that POGO belongs to quantifies rise in secrecy. August 26, 2004.

POGO Alert - Government Should Consider Suspending Halliburton Contracts. August 18, 2004.

POGO Alert - Proposal to Secure Los Alamos Quashed. August 13, 2004.

POGO Alert - Man Who Hold Purse Strings: "glory years for the nuclear weapons complex are over." A National Academy of Sciences speech by the Department of Energy's top budget decisionmaker in the House of Representatives outlined why the agency doesn't deserve increased funding. August 11, 2004.

POGO Alert - Internal Los Alamos document proves cyber security lapses long known. August 5, 2004.

POGO Alert - Nuclear Power Plant Lobbyists Shape Post-9/11 Security Tests. August 3, 2004.

POGO Alert - POGO Statement on C-130J Inspector General Audit. Pentagon's Inspector General audit says Air Force's new fleet of C-130J transport aircraft have so many deficiencies that they can't perform their mission. July 23, 2004.

POGO Alert - Thumbs Up to Secretary Abraham's Decision to Halt Classified Removable Media Operations in Nuclear Weapons Complex. July 23, 2004.

POGO Alert - Nuclear Weapons Complex Chief Linton Brooks Should Resign. July 21, 2004.

POGO Alert - Unconfirmed Investigative Lead - More security blunders at Los Alamos. July 18, 2004.

POGO Alert - At Los Alamos, Security Failures keep "happening, and happening, and happening." July 15, 2004.

POGO Alert - Only Half-truths from Los Alamos - POGO Recommends Termination of University of California's Los Alamos Contract. July 14, 2004.

POGO Alert - In a 2000 survey, Marines rank-and-file were highly critical of some of the V-22 Osprey's "human factors." July 13, 2004.

POGO Alert - Government Contractors Wield Influence Through Revolving Door, Campaign Contributions. June 29, 2004.

POGO Alert - Attorney General's Reclassification of Information Critical of FBI Is Illegal. POGO Has Right to Inform Public of Problems at FBI, Lawsuit Says. June 23, 2004.

POGO Alert - F/A-22 Raptor Has No Role as a Bomber, Legendary Fighter Pilot Says. June 17, 2004.

POGO Alert - LEAKED DOCUMENT: Retroactive Classification of Sibel Edmonds Congressional Briefings. June 4, 2004.

POGO Alert - Government Considers Barring CACI Contracts. May 28, 2004.

POGO Alert - Oil Companies Cash in On Homeland Security Grants. The Department of Homeland Security has granted scarce taxpayer dollars to multi-billion dollar oil companies while states and municipalities go under-funded in protecting against terrorist attacks. May 26, 2004.

POGO Alert - Classified Computer Media Missing at Los Alamos. May 20, 2004.

POGO Alert - Defense Science Board Concludes There is No Tanker Emergency. May 13, 2004.

POGO Alert - Nuclear Security Improvements Follow POGO Recommendations. The Department of Energy announced major new upgrades to security at nuclear weapons facilities urged by POGO. May 7, 2004.

POGO Alert - POGO Testimony: Nukes Need Consolidation to Defend Against Terrorists. April 26, 2004.

POGO Alert - Portions of the Pentagon's Department of Operational Test and Evaluation 2003 Annual Report. The Pentagon used to make this report publicly available on the web, but is no longer doing so. POGO has scanned in the reports of eleven of the biggest or most troubled systems. April 16, 2004.

POGO Alert - U.S. Special Counsel Issues Gag Order To His Own Employees. April 15, 2004.

POGO Alert - "Airplanes as Missiles" Scenario Rejected Five Months prior to 9/11. April 13, 2004.

POGO Alert - Pentagon Inspector General report further supports a decision to halt a sweetheart deal for Air Force to lease Boeing 767 tankers. April 9, 2004.

POGO Alert - POGO's Statement Regarding DOE's Movement of Los Alamos Nuclear Materials. April 1, 2004.

POGO Alert - Taxpayer and Military Watchdogs Call for Cancellation of F/A-22. March 15, 2004.

POGO Alert - F/A-22 Costs Rise Again, Price Tag of $329 Million Each. March 15, 2004.

POGO Alert - Questionable Iraq reconstruction contracts due to federal contracting weaknesses, according to POGO white paper. March 11, 2004.

POGO Alert - Security at nuclear power plants is still lax. POGO's Danielle Brian addressed a conference organized by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and outlined how plants still need to improve protections against terrorist attacks. March 10, 2004.

POGO Alert - POGO's statement regarding the cancellation of the Army's Comanche Helicopter. February 23, 2004.

POGO Alert - POGO Supports OMB Request for F/A-22 and Comanche Program Studies. February 10, 2004.

POGO Alert - POGO announces update of the RAH-66 Comanche Helicopter "Fighting with Failures," one in a series of fact sheets designed to document Pentagon shortcuts in weapons testing, and problems that result including billions of wasted taxpayer dollars, the deaths of military personnel, and the production of weapons that do not work. January 22, 2004.

POGO Alert - INVESTIGATIVE LEAD: Oak Ridge Nuclear Materials Vulnerable. January 15, 2004.

POGO Alert - GSA's Deal with WorldCom: Bad Business for Taxpayers. January 8, 2004.

POGO Alert - POGO calls for investigation into Stryker revolving door and rush to deploy in Iraq. Renewed debate on the revolving door has brought attention to the hiring of a top Army general by General Dynamics only 11 months before the defense contractor was awarded a $4 billion contract to build the Stryker armored vehicle. The first Stryker brigade was recently deployed in Iraq's Sunni Triangle despite warnings by the Pentagon's top tester that the wheeled vehicle is vulnerable to rocket propelled grenades. January 7, 2004.

2003

POGO Alert - POGO calls for Senator Stevens' Resignation. The Los Angeles Times exposed a long list of financial benefits that Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) and his family members have received as a result of his policymaking decisions as the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee. December 19, 2003.


POGO Alert - POGO calls for Halliburton to disclose cost details of Iraq contracts. Pentagon auditors say Halliburton may have overbilled the government as much as $61 million for one contract, and would have overbilled $67 million for another contract were it not for an audit. December 12, 2003.


POGO Alert - Computer Disks with Classified Information Missing at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). LANL's repeated loss of classified computer media is problematic. December 9, 2003.


POGO Alert - Boeing Fires Former Top Air Force Official Over Unethical Conduct. Boeing Company announced today that it has fired former Air Force top acquisition official Darleen Druyun and the company's Chief Financial Officer in connection with the two conducting possibly illegal discussions of "matters involving Boeing" while Druyun was still a government employee. November 24, 2003.


POGO Alert - Energy Conference Bill Levels Whistleblower Playing Field. Buried in the controversial Energy Conference Bill is a provision that would eliminate a long-standing practice that allows Department of Energy contractors to charge the taxpayers for legal expenses they ring up in whistleblower court cases. November 10, 2003.


POGO Alert - Nuclear Workers Exposed: The Politics of Contracting. Nuclear workers' injury claims are not being processed and may not handled for seven years, but a government contractor's lobbying efforts may allow it to retain the contract. October 31, 2003.


POGO Alert - Iraq Reconstruction Contracting Abuses. As Congress considers expanding loopholes in federal contracting, POGO issues a new report discussing how changes in procurement law over the past decade have made the government more susceptible to abuses. October 27, 2003.


POGO Alert - POGO supports strengthening the Whistleblower Protection Act, which is essential to promote good government and defend the public interest, allowing those insiders with information about abuse, waste and fraud to come forward without fear of retaliation. October 16, 2003.


POGO Alert - A pair of GAO studies confirmed that the taxpayers would reap huge savings from a compromise proposal of Senators John Warner and Carl Levin to lease 25 and purchase 75 tankers, rather than lease 100. October 16, 2003.


POGO Alert - The B-1 Bomber: Less is More. Congress should not tamper with a cost-saving and sensible plan to cut 33 B-1 Bombers from the Air Force's inventory. September 25, 2003.