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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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Testimony
Testimony of POGO’s Danielle Brian on “Contractor Debarment and Suspension: A Broken System,” before the George Washington Law School
The Government's system for debarring and/or suspending contractors is broken. It has been broken for a long time. However, continuing consolidation of the defense industry has only begun to illustrate clearly just how broken the system is.
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to Cost Accounting Standards Board, Dr. Rein Abel Regarding Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on Accounting for the Cost of Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) Board's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on "Accounting for the Cost of Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)" by government contractors (68 FR 50111, Aug. 20, 2003).
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Analysis
Imperial America: The Bush Assault on the World Order (Cato Institute Book Forum)
The Cato Institute is hosting a Book Forum on Imperial America: The Bush Assault on the World Order by John Newhouse, CDI Senior Fellow, taking place in Washington, D.C., this Thursday, Nov. 13. Mr. Newhouse, who covered foreign policy for The New Yorker and served in two diff...
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Public Comment
POGO’s public comment opposing the Department of Interior’s proposed amendments to the oil valuation rule for being a giveaway to the oil industry
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) has worked for over a decade to make federal oil royalty payments more accurate and transparent. The oil valuation rule, as implemented in 2000, went a long way to combat the rampant fraud perpetrated by the oil industry and allowed b...
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Analysis
Kill the Boeing Tanker Deal
In his recent Defense Week op-ed, Winslow Wheeler, CDI Visiting Senior Fellow, examines U.S. Air Force plans to contract with Boeing for new 767s, arguing that the proposed deal is unwise and a microcosm of broader problems in America’s national security apparatus.
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Policy Letter
Letter to Department of Defense, Inspector General regarding expansion of inquiry into former Air Force acquisition chief Darleen Druyun’s conduct with Boeing
I am writing to request that you expand your inquiry into former Air Force acquisition chief Darleen Druyun's conduct with regard to her then-future employer Boeing.
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Testimony
Testimony of POGO’s Eric Miller on Proposed KC-767A Tanker Lease
For more than a year, POGO has conducted an ongoing in-depth study into the tanker lease proposal. In May 2002, we issued a critical report on the tanker lease idea, "Fill 'Er Up: Back-Door Deal for Boeing Will Leave the Taxpayer on Empty." Only last week, we sent a ...
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Policy Letter
Letter to Senate Armed Services Committee urging the committee to reject an Air Force proposal to lease 100 Boeing 767 aircraft
On September 4, 2003, your committee is scheduled to hear testimony on a multi-billion dollar U.S. Air Force proposal to lease 100 Boeing 767 wide-body aircraft and convert them into tankers. The Project On Government Oversight strongly urges you to reject the proposal for wha...
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Analysis
The Proliferation Security Initiative: Naval Interception Bush Style
On May 31, 2003 as part of a speech in Krakow, Poland, President George W. Bush announced a new effort to hinder the unwanted spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Calling nuclear, chemical and biological weapons the 'greatest threat to peace,' Bush said that the United...
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Analysis
INSIGHTS: Terrorism and the Law: A Few Reflections
War as we have come to know it assumes the destruction of armies, the capture of enemy leaders and capitulation followed by negotiations for peace. But these conditions, which normally constitute victory, no longer exist. Capture the capital — and you have not won. Capture Sad...
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Analysis
INSIGHTS: Car Bomb Blast Rips Apart UN Headquarters in Iraq
The bomb that exploded in the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad is another in an escalating series of attacks on soft targets in Iraq.
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Policy Letter
Letter to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge
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