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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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Policy Letter
POGO Requests Independent Study to Determine Need For Nuclear Facility
The Project On Government Oversight is concerned about the rising cost of the proposed Uranium Processing Facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex and requests an independent study to determine exactly what capacity will be required of the mutibillion-dollar facility.
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Analysis
POGO Briefs the Supreme Court Supporting MacLean
This week, the Project On Government Oversight submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court supporting Robert MacLean, who blew the whistle on a cost-cutting measure that would have removed air marshals from long-distance flights when the government was aware of a looming te...
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Policy Letter
POGO joins Coalition of Open Government Groups Challenging Obama Administration Transparency Policy
POGO joined a coalition of transparency groups and open government advocates sent a letter to President Obama today urging him to either “withdraw” or “provide guidance to agencies” on a 2009 White House Counsel memorandum that instructs all federal agencies to consult with Wh...
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Analysis
In Defense of National Security Whistleblowers
In a recent Harvard Law & Policy Review article, Yochai Benkler, law professor and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, introduced the idea of a “public accountability defense,” especially for national security whistleblowers.
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Analysis
Settlement Finally Brings Justice to Marine Corps Whistleblower
More than seven years after he first raised concerns about a lack of safe military vehicles in Iraq—truth telling that got him reprimanded and suspended—Marine science advisor Franz Gayl can finally get back to work.
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Analysis
Hill Encourages DoD IG to Protect Contractor Whistleblowers
A bipartisan group of Members of Congress sent a letter chastising the DoD Office of Inspector General for having an “extremely limited definition of Department of Defense personnel to whom contractor and subcontractor employees may make protected disclosures.”
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Analysis
Social Security’s Perilous Plan for Its Future
As the Social Security Administration readies its strategic plan for the next decade, there is growing concern over the agency's shift toward Web-based customer service and its contract with credit reporting giant Experian.
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Analysis
Energy Labs Feel the Heat as Their Effectiveness Is Examined
A commission established to review the effectiveness of the United States' national lab system has met for the second time, a day before a group of Senators announced the creation of a National Labs Caucus to push back against potential consolidation.
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Analysis
Report Finds Pentagon’s Real Estate Inventory Incomplete, Incorrect and Inconsistent
The Department of Defense has no idea what’s going on in more than half the properties it owns and it has no plans to figure that information out, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
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Public Comment
POGO Joins Comments Calling for Public Access to Consumer Complaint Narratives
The undersigned consumer, privacy, civil rights, labor and open government groups unequivocally support the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposal to publish consumer narratives in the public complaint database. Director Cordray has called the complaint narrative...
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Analysis
Millions Wasted on Communication Towers in Afghanistan
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction reports wasteful spending by the Department of State on underused communication towers across Afghanistan.
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Policy Letter
Concerned Groups Highlight Problems with DOE’s Treatment of Political Scientist
A group of 18 concerned organizations and individuals joined together to highlight a few areas of concern at the Department of Energy and the way it handled the termination of Dr. James Doyle.