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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
Summary of DoD Budget and QDR
CDI Straus Military Reform Project Director Winslow Wheeler summarizes the DoD’s new fiscal year 2007 budget and the just released 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) in a short article in Harvard University's "Nieman Watchdog."
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Policy Letter
POGO’s letter to Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Diaz on the proposed Design Basis Threat (DBT)
I understand you intend to leave the Chairmanship of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) this year. I also understand that you would like to leave behind a lasting legacy. I am taking advantage of the current rulemaking process to write to you about what is, without except...
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Testimony
Testimony of POGO’s Beth Daley, Sr. Investigator, Before the House Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations
Congress should create penalties for those who retaliate against whistleblowers who communicate with Congress. Laws like the Lloyd LaFollette Act which protect disclosures to Congress by government employees are toothless without enforcement.
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Analysis
Briefing on DoD’s QDR and 2007 Budget
The 2007 defense budget is simultaneously gigantic and yet too small to implement DoD’s new plans. Donald Rumsfeld’s new Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) fails to address the core reason why such reviews are required by Congress, and the new budget is crowded with gimmicks to ...
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Public Comment
POGO Opposes Proposed Reductions in Oversight of Government Contracts
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) Board’s Proposed Rule With Request for Comment, entitled “Cost Accounting Standards Board Changes to Acquisition Thresholds” (70 FR 73423, December 12, 2005).
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Analysis
Neither Shall the Sword: Conflict in the Years Ahead
(93 pages, January 2006) Col. Chet Richards (USAF, ret.), a long-time contributor to CDI’s published monographs, has written a new work on 4th generation warfare, the type of conflict America has been waging, and losing, in Iraq.
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Analysis
Defense Budget Tutorial #3C: Pork: How to get rid of it
Knowing what pork really is leads to a foolproof (and Congress-proof) solution. The biggest impediment may be finding a member of Congress serious enough to make real reforms stick. Straus Military Reform Project Director Winslow Wheeler explains.