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Policy Letter
Scientists Who Serve
The Oct. 30 news story "NIH's New Ethics Rules Lead Some to Ponder Jumping Ship" sounded the alarm that restrictions on outside income may cause the best and the brightest of the National Institutes of Health's researchers to retire or leave for academia, which has m...
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Policy Letter
Written Statement of POGO’s Beth Daley to the Royalty Policy Committee
At the last meeting of the Royalty Policy Committee on April 26, 2006, there was some discussion of the deteriorating relationship between the Minerals Management Service (MMS) and the State and Tribal Royalty Audit Committee (STRAC). Since that meeting, the relationship has d...
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Policy Letter
Letter from POGO to DOE Secretary Bodman regarding unnecessary ongoing cybersecurity weaknesses
The Project On Government Oversight is writing to voice our concern over the Department of Energy’s (DOE) failure to adequately oversee the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and, in particular, its failure to implement the long-promised plan to go media-less.
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Analysis
From One Lab to Another: Los Alamos Info Breach and Meth Trailer Story Develops
A resource from POGO.org
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to DOE Secretary Bodman concerning inadequate security at the Y-12 facility and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Attached is a copy of the most recent Project On Government Oversight (POGO) report on nuclear weapons security, U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex: Y-12 and Oak Ridge National Laboratory at High Risk.
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Analysis
Another Yawner from CBO
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has just released the newest in a long series of studies by itself, and others, about how poorly the Department of Defense projects the resources needed to support its own defense plan. The study explains the counterintuitive statement we ...
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Policy Letter
Government limits public access to contracting meeting by charging a fee
The Project On Government Oversight ("POGO") is an independent nonprofit organization that investigates and exposes corruption and other misconduct in order to achieve a more accountable federal government.
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Report
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex: Y-12 and Oak Ridge National Laboratory at High Risk
Two Department of Energy nuclear weapons facilities in Eastern Tennessee are at high risk, and can not meet the government's security standards. If a terrorist attacks the Y-12 National Security Complex or the Oak Ridge National Labs, and detonates an improvised nuclear device...