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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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Analysis
Booz Allen Suspension: A Successful Failure
POGO has learned more details about the Air Force's proposed debarment of Booz Allen Hamilton's San Antonio office. This new information raises a troubling prospect about the revolving door between government and private contractors. Namely, that stopping its abuses often isn’...
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Analysis
The Hidden Costs of Star Creep: Generals Making More in Retirement Than In Service
The cost of our nation's top-heavy military--which now features a historically large proportion of generals and admirals, a trend called Star Creep--doesn't end when these top officers retire. Indeed, top generals and admirals can make even more in retirement than they do on a...
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Analysis
Infographic: The Explosive Costs of CMRR-NF, Los Alamos’ Billion Dollar Nuke Facility
It's hard to look into the future, but the Department of Energy (DOE) is especially bad at it. In 2001 they projected that the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement (CMRR) Facility in Los Alamos would cost $375 million. After ten years of design and planning, the new p...
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Policy Letter
POGO and Partners Support STOCK Act
Last week, the Senate passed the bipartisan “Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge” (STOCK) Act by an overwhelming vote of 96 to 3. Reform groups strongly supported this legislation.
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Policy Letter
POGO and Partners Support STOCK Act, Issue Letter to House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor
Enclosed is a letter our organizations have sent to all House Members expressing our strong support for voting on and passing the Senate-passed STOCK Act and sending it immediately to President Obama for his signature.
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Analysis
Navy Marks Camp Lejeune Contamination Docs with Bogus “For Official Use Only” Label
The evidence that the Department of the Navy is using legally questionable methods to stop the release of information related to the water contamination scandal at Camp Lejeune keeps piling up.
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Policy Letter
POGO to Panetta: U.S. Taxpayers Shouldn’t Bear the Cost of B61 Bombs Deployed in Europe
The cost for extending the lives of the 200 B61 nuclear bombs deployed and stored in Europe has increased from $1.6 billion to $2.1 billion in less than a year. In light of the program’s cost, the questionable military efficacy of the deployment of these bombs, and the securit...
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Public Comment
POGO Joins Comments in Support of Public Access to Consumer Complaints Database
We the undersigned consumer, civil rights, privacy, open government groups, and members of Americans for Financial Reform (AFR), welcome the CFPB’s decision to propose a policy that creates a publicly accessible complaint database. We have long supported a system that balances...
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Analysis
Six Americans Obama and Holder Charged Under the Espionage Act (and One Bonus Whistleblower)
Though rare, U.S. presidents have attempted to use the World War I-era Espionage Act to silence Americans from leaking information to the media for decades. It is a charge that is as controversial, as it is grave. This is the law the Nixon administration infamously invoked whe...
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Policy Letter
POGO and Allies Call on Pentagon to Serve Public Interest, Not Secrecy
We, the undersigned nonprofit organizations, are deeply concerned about a recent letter regarding the treatment of information related to the water contamination at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune from the Department of the Navy (DON) to Agency for Toxic Substances and Dis...
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Policy Letter
POGO and Allies Call for Unredacted Camp Lejeune Water Contamination Report
We, the undersigned nonprofit organizations, are deeply concerned about a recent letter regarding the treatment of information related to the water contamination at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune from the Department of the Navy (DON) to Agency for Toxic Substances and Dis...
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Report
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex: Energy Department Plans to Waste Billions of Dollars on Unneeded Los Alamos Lab Facility
The Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement-Nuclear Facility is a proposed facility at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The facility would enable the United States to dramatically increase its production of plutonium pits, which are primary components of nuclear weapo...