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Policy Letter
POGO Asks DHHS Secretary Sebelius to Reinvestigate FDA’s Negligent Oversight of Unsafe Medical Devices
In recent years the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has improperly approved the marketing of medical devices that do not meet the FDA’s own standards for efficacy and safety. Some of the unlucky patients who received these defective devices have been se...
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Public Comment
DoD Needs to Expand Proposed Award Fee Rule
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) provides the following public comment to DFARS Case 2009-D039, “Award-Fee Reductions for Health and Safety Issues” (75 Fed. Reg. 69360, November 12, 2010). The Department of Defense’s (DoD) interim rule amends the Defense Federal Acqu...
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Analysis
How a Red Herring about WikiLeaks Killed Whistleblower Protections
WikiLeaks killed our whistleblower protections bill—sort of. After an unbelievable roller coaster of fear and fallacies, votes on and off, and a flurry of activity, when the lights went out in the Capitol Building on December 22, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act wa...
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Analysis
Littoral Combat Ship: Looking for Congressional Oversight
Among the final acts of the last Congress was approving a continuing resolution that authorized the Navy to buy 20 sea frames of both the Lockheed Martin and Austal USA versions of the Littoral Combat Ships (LCS).
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Policy Letter
POGO’s fourth reply to letters from Dr. Schatzberg and Dr. Nemeroff
Based on your most recent letters to POGO, we modified the NIH letter and blog to reflect that the timeline notes that GSK “would receive” all three drafts of the handbook and page proofs for final approval.
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Policy Letter
POGO Joins Letter Calling For Reopening of the NARA Investigation into the CIA Destruction of Federal Records
As organizations concerned with transparency and accountability, we are writing to support the re-opening of the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) investigation into the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) destruction of federal records showing the torture ...
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Public Comment
POGO Comments on DoD Prohibition of Contractor Interrogators
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) provides the following public comment to DFARS Case 2010-D027, “Prohibition on Interrogation of Detainees by Contractor Personnel” (75 Fed. Reg. 67632, November 3, 2010). POGO supports the intent of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) i...
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Public Comment
POGO Supports Overseas Government Contracting Accountability Modification
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) Board’s proposed rule entitled “Cost Accounting Standards: Elimination of the Exemption from Cost Accounting Standards for Contracts Executed and Performed Entirely Outside the United States, Its T...
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Public Comment
POGO’s Public Comment Regarding the SEC’s Whistleblower Award Program
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) provides the following public comment on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) “Proposed Rules for Implementing the Whistleblower Provisions of Section 21F of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934” (Release No. 34-63237, File N...
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Policy Letter
Dozens of Groups Urge Rep. Issa to Help Pass S. 372 to Protect Whistlebowers and Taxpayers
Your support is crucial. After months of your support for the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA), our community was deeply disappointed to read in the Washington Post this morning that you want to delay passage of S. 372. The time to pass whistleblower reform is r...
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Policy Letter
POGO’s third reply to letters from Dr. Schatzberg and Dr. Nemeroff
In response to your third letter, and after additional reviews of the numerous documents in our possession, the Project On Government Oversight (“POGO”) will not be altering its November 29, 2010, revised letter to National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) or blog entry, or issuin...
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Analysis
Never Mind the WikiLeaks, Here’s Subsidy Tracker
The current furor over Wikileaks has triggered an intense discussion of government and corporate transparency and accountability issues (for example, check out POGO’s latest podcast), which has been great, but it has also drawn attention away from other notable recent developm...