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Analysis
Cancer Study on Camp Lejeune Mired in Controversy
The release of a mortality study showing higher death rates for victims of water contamination at Camp Lejeune sparked controversy over cancer incidence within the affected population. Meanwhile, the CDC agency director responsible for the studies resigned suddenly.
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Analysis
GAO: Noncompetitive Contracts Need Stronger Oversight
According to a new GAO report, the government needs to improve oversight of the billions spent each year for goods and services on an urgency basis.
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Analysis
EPA Fails to Monitor Its Purchase Card Spending
A recent report by the Office of the Inspector General for the Environmental Protection Agency found abuse of the EPA's purchase cards and significant problems with the agency's system for ensuring that charge cards are not misused.
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Intelligence Official Cited for “Unauthorized Disclosure” to Congress: Oversight on the Rocks
Just over a year ago, an official at the Defense Department gave congressional oversight committees a document that had the potential to embarrass the Secretary of Defense and the Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General.
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Analysis
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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Analysis
Brilliant, Acutely Informed Air Combat Power Advocate Passes Away
With his close cropped hair and unassuming appearance, former A-10 pilot Lt. Col. Robert ("Muck") Brown made a very different initial impression from the over-groomed, in-your-face egoism that many in Washington, DC, have come to expect from Air Force pilots on the ...
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Analysis
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.
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Analysis
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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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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AnalysisLooking Forward to When FOIA is No Longer Needed
Open government activists, journalists and interested citizens gathered today at Washington, D.C.’s Newseum to celebrate the 16th annual National Freedom of Information Day, part of this year’s Sunshine Week.
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Analysis
Coalition Applauds Committee Vote to Extend Whistleblower Rights
The Steering Committee for the Make It Safe Coalition of more than 50 NGOs supporting whistleblower rights applauds yesterday's passage of the All Circuit Review Extension Act by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
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Sunshine from Congress
The Transparency In Government Act offers a number of welcome good government reforms.