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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
Sample Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request Letter
Sample Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request Letter
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Testimony
Testimony of POGO’s Danielle Brian, Executive Director on Nuclear Security: Can DOE Meet Facility Security Requirements Before the House Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations
Since then, however, POGO has become more guardedly optimistic. We had the opportunity to meet with Secretary Spencer Abraham, Deputy Secretary Kyle McSlarrow and Security and Safety Performance Assurance Office Director Glenn Podonsky in January 2004. We began, in that meetin...
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Policy Letter
Joint POGO, PEER & GAP Letter to Office of Special Counsel, Scott Bloch, regarding gag order on career staff of the OSC
On behalf of the Government Accountability Project, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, and the Project on Government Oversight, we are writing to express our profound concern about your recent decision to impose a gag order on the career staff of the Office of ...
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Policy Letter
POGO letter to Hon. Thomas K. Kean, Chairman, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States regarding the U.S. military’s refusal to heed concerns that terrorists might try to strike domestic targets with hijacked airliners
Yesterday the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) made public the attached internal email from staff assigned to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
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Analysis
Military readiness likely to emerge again as campaign issue
In his Army Times op-ed, Winslow Wheeler, CDI Visiting Senior Fellow and veteran Senate staffer, argues that the military readiness shoe President Bush tried to use to stomp the Democrats in the 2000 presidential campaign is now on the other foot.
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Report
Federal Contracting and Iraq Reconstruction
Recently, policymakers, the media, and the American public have inquired about Iraq reconstruction contracts. What most people do not realize is that those contracts are not anomalies - in fact, they simply reflect the flawed federal contracting system that exists today. Favor...
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Testimony
Speech by POGO’s Executive Director Danielle Brian to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s 2004 Regulatory Information Conference
Thank you for inviting me to speak again this year. I'm coming to you fresh from a pretty frustrating few months trying to communicate security concerns to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Perhaps by incorporating them into this speech, I can get a response without hav...
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Policy Letter
Citizens Against Government Waste and POGO ask the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate alleged conflicts of interest by Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)
The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste and The Project On Government Oversight respectfully asks for a Senate Select Committee on Ethics investigation of Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska).
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Policy Letter
POGO letter to the Office of Management and Budget regarding the F/A-22 Raptor and Comanche Helicopter programs
We commend you for your recent directive requiring formal Pentagon review of the F/A-22 Raptor and Comanche helicopter programs with an eye toward cutting or eliminating these overpriced and unneeded weapons systems.
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Public Comment
POGO comment on the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Councils proposed rule to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation “Applicability of the Cost Principles and Penalties for Unallowable Costs”
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposed rule to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) at 48 CFR Parts 15, 31, and 42, "Applicability of the Cost Principles and Penalties for Unallowable Costs," that was published in the Federal Register on N...
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Policy Letter
POGO opposed NRC’s proposed regulation on fire protection at nuclear power plants
This comment is in response to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) "Draft Criteria for Determining Feasibility of Manual Actions To Achieve Post-Fire Safe Shutdown" that was published in 68 Federal Register 66501 (November 26, 2003). Subsequently, the NRC ext...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to NRC Chairman Niles Diaz regarding NRC efforts to silence criticism
As you recall, in September I wrote to you to respond to your letter to the New York Congressional delegation and local politicians claiming that this summer’s force-on-force test at Indian Point had shown a “strong defensive strategy and capability.”