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POGO’s experts push policymakers to enact commonsense reforms that tackle waste, corruption, and abuse of power; hold those who’ve violated the public trust accountable; protect our constitutional rights; and make the government work for all people.
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AnalysisOne of Robert Gates’ More Real Legacies
Today's fixation in Washington is former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates' so called new revelation, breathlessly reported by the Washington Post (Robert Woodward), the New York Times (Thom Shanker) and others, that Barak Obama was not fully committed to George Bush's (and Ro...
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Analysis
SEC Finally Finalizes a Revolving Door Rule
After backtracking from a promise to tighten restrictions on its revolving door, the Securities and Exchange Commission is again moving forward with plans to close a loophole in federal ethics rules for senior employees who leave the agency.
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AnalysisThe Latest Word on F-35 Unit Cost
2013 ended with some outrageous claims from Lockheed-Martin on the oh-so low cost of the F-35 in just a few years. Sadly, the prognostications were reported in multiple major defense media outlets without balance or any checking for the available empirical data. In his first...
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Analysis
Obama Makes Commitments to Protect Whistleblowers?
POGO considers whether President Obama's commitments in this year's national action plan for openness will protect whistleblowers.
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Analysis
Big Victory for Military Whistleblowers and Victims of Sexual Assault
Congress has passed strengthened protections for military whistleblowers and victims of sexual assault against unfair retaliation which are headed to the President’s desk to be signed into law.
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Analysis
Three Strikes Against Waste Disposal in Afghanistan
For the third time this year, the Afghanistan reconstruction watchdog found wasteful, possibly life-threatening, waste incineration practices on U.S. bases in Afghanistan.
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Analysis
Effective Savings Requires Regulation Amendments
With the increased use of reverse auctions in federal acquisitions, specific regulations and guidelines are needed to maximize the effectiveness of reverse auctions.
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Analysis
U.S. Submits Transparency Plan for International Approval
The U.S. candidacy application to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has been submitted, which means the public is one step closer to understanding how the extractive industries impact their communities, the environment, and the economy.
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Analysis
EPA Inspector General Uncovers Employee’s Million-Dollar Fraud
The EPA Inspector General found one employee defrauded the government out of almost $1 million over 12 years, and identified the agency problems that allowed in to happen.
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Office of Special Counsel Releases Report Confirming Misconduct by Then-Agency Head Scott Bloch
Nearly a decade after the infamous tenure of then-Special Counsel Scott Bloch, we finally have a public record validating the concerns the Project On Government Oversight and others had been raising since 2005.
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AnalysisAssessing One of the Primary Rationales to Retire the A-10
Winslow Wheeler starts to respond to the Air Force's rationale for retiring its fleet of A-10 close air support aircraft, thereby removing the most effective and least costly weapon for performing an essential mission.
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‘Hedge Hogs’ Gives Inside Look at Wall Street’s Outrageous Behavior
In Hedge Hogs: The Cowboy Traders Behind Wall Street’s Largest Hedge Fund Disaster, Barbara Dreyfuss uses her investigative and analytic skills to give readers an insider look at the high-stakes, high-ego culture of Wall Street.