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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
An Open Letter to Appropriators in Congress: End the Budget Gimmicks and Cut the Pentagon’s Slush Fund
POGO joins a transpartisan group of organizations in calling for an end to the use of Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account as a slush fund to avoid sequestration cuts to the Pentagon budget.
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Policy Letter
Transparency Groups Call for New Reporting on Presidential Library Fundraising
POGO joins groups in supporting the Presidential Library Donation Reform Act and asking House leadership to bring the bill to a vote. The bill would introduce transparency measures for presidential library fundraising.
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Analysis
Senator Questions Retirement Perks for Generals and Admirals
Senator Ayotte has raised an important issue: whether a special pension enhancement for generals should be revoked following Congress’s decision to cut cost-of-living adjustments for military retirees.
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Analysis
The Pentagon’s PR War Against SIGAR
Military commanders in Afghanistan are waging their most aggressive campaign against the office charged with overseeing the $100 billion being spent on Afghanistan's reconstruction.
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Policy Letter
Groups Call for Increased Transparency in Rulemaking
POGO joins Public Citizen and other open government groups in calling for a change at the Office of the Federal Register that would require that standards incorporated in proposed and final rules be available for free on the Internet.
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Policy Letter
Groups Thank Representatives Cummings and Waxman for Supporting Transparency in Farm Bill
POGO and other transparency groups thank Representatives Elijah Cummings and Henry Waxman for defending open government in a letter opposing secrecy provisions to the Farm Bill. The provisions were defeated in the final bill.
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Policy Letter
Transparency Groups Thank Senator Leahy for Fighting Against Unnecessary Secrecy on Farm Bill
POGO and other transparency groups thank Senator Leahy for defending open government by opposing secrecy provisions to the Farm Bill. The unnecessary provisions were not included in the final bill.
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Analysis
Six House Members Seek to Oust Intelligence Director
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper should be removed because of untruthful statements he made before Congress concerning the intelligence community’s use of bulk data collection programs, six members of Congress said this week in a letter sent to President Obama.
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AnalysisComments on F-35 Testing
F-35 observers, both advocates and critics, have been waiting for the 2013 Annual Report of the Pentagon's Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E). After its initial leaking to Reuters last week, the F-35 section became available to many Monday night. It is c...
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Analysis
DOJ Sues Firm That Screened Edward Snowden and Navy Yard Shooter
The Justice Department alleges contractor U.S. Investigations Services submitted more than 600,000 falsified security clearance background investigations over four and a half years and defrauded taxpayers of millions of dollars.
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Analysis
What Does the New Spending Law Mean For the Pentagon?
Let’s take a quick look at the winners and losers in the recently enacted omnibus appropriations package, which provided funding for the Pentagon for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2014.
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AnalysisWhat’s the Latest Word on F-35 Unit Cost?
The 2014 "Omnibus" appropriations act, now signed into law, gives us further insights into the unit cost of the F-35. The fine print in the "Omnibus," or actually in its "Joint Explanatory Statement," also suggests the possibility of turbulence i...