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Analysis
More Bad News on the Iraq Contracting Front
It's Halloween today, and taxpayers should be afraid--VERY afraid. On Monday, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) released another report guaranteed to make you scream in terror.
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Analysis
Dr. Ned Feder: Ethical Problems at NIH - The Struggle Continues
My past battles with the NIH's leaders have recently been featured in stories on Pharmalot, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Nature. As a scientist at NIH I pointed out that too many researchers funded by the NIH were privately receiving consulting fees and other paymen...
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Analysis
Myths about a Federal Contractor Responsibility Database
The government is shirking its mandated requirement to only do business with responsible contractors. The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is concerned that pre-award contractor responsibility determinations have fallen by the wayside.
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Analysis
Bailout Shambles is No Surprise with this Congress
Don't think the fiasco in the House of Representatives was out of the norm for congressional behavior these days. The director of the Straus Military Report Project, Winslow Wheeler, explains that the American public can expect more in a commentary that appeared in the Oct. 2,...
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INVESTIGATIVE LEAD: Is DOE Playing Red Light/Green Light at LANL?
A computer which may have contained highly classified nuclear weapons information from the Los Alamos National Laboratory was traded in exchange for drugs, according to unconfirmed sources. The computer was owned by Jessica Quintana, the former contractor employee at the Lab ...
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Analysis
It’s Not Just the Bases—or the Nukes
A series of commentaries is being sponsored on the Mother Jones website about the sprawl of American military bases around the world and the implications. Straus Military Reform Project Director Winslow Wheeler contributed to this series with a piece entitled "It's Not Ju...
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Analysis
NRC Inspector General Releases Investigative Report in Response to POGO’s Letter on Peach Bottom Incident
Officials at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) are currently reviewing how they handle security-related allegations.
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Analysis
DCAA Responds to GAO Report on Auditing Controversy
POGO has obtained a 19-page letter from the Western Regional Director at the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) that was submitted in response to a GAO report which concluded that DCAA management pressured auditors to alter their reports on defense contractors. Although com...
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Analysis
Court Rules Against University of California Whistleblowers
In a setback to whistleblowers, the Supreme Court of California issued an opinion last week stating that the University of California (UC) can avoid liability in whistleblower cases simply by deciding whistleblower allegations. Under the Court's ruling, if UC renders a decisi...
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AnalysisOngoing Corrupted Enterprise
The media focus in the Senator Ted Stevens, R-AK, scandal has been on one man. But there is much more to it than that; it's not just that Congress is filled to overflowing with members addicted to pork. It is that the entire system operates under rules—written and approved by ...
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Analysis
Parsons Corporation in Iraq: Another Chapter in ‘An Episodic Story of Waste’
Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction (SIGIR), told the Associated Press on Monday that his agency's 120 audits on Iraqi reconstruction projects "tell an episodic story of waste."
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Analysis
An Air Force in Freefall
The Senate Armed Services Committee today questions President George W. Bush's nominees to be secretary and chief of staff of the Air Force. Given the fundamental problems that have put the Air Force into a freefall—questions of relevance, competence and most importantly ethic...