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Testimony
Testimony of Danielle Brian, POGO’s Executive Director on Inadequate Security at the Department of Energy Nuclear Weapons Complex before the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations
In early 2001, POGO began its investigation into nuclear security at the Department Of Energy (DOE) after more than a dozen high-level departmental security experts came forward with concerns regarding inadequate security at the DOE's nuclear weapons facilities. Just prior to ...
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Testimony
Testimony of Ronald E. Timm, Certified Protection Professional, President, RETA Security, Inc. to the 108th Congress, House of Representatives
For the past 20 years I have been continuously participating in security programs for all of the Class A facilities and transportation of Category I quantities of special nuclear materials in the Department of Energy. I am currently doing more limited work in security at the D...
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Testimony
Testimony of Peter D.H. Stockton POGO’s Senior Investigator before the House Democratic Task Force on Homeland Security on Inadequate Security at Nuclear Power Plants and Nuclear Weapons Facilities
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) has spent over two years investigating the adequacy of security at U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, as well as the security at U.S. nuclear power plants. POGO takes no position on nuclear power. The Task Force has asked me to address ...
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Policy Letter
Letter from taxpayer watchdogs supporting Shays/Markey legislation requiring better financial disclosure by federally subsidized mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
The undersigned taxpayer watchdog groups urge you to join U.S. Reps. Chris Shays (R-Conn.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass) as co-sponsors of H.R. 2002, the “Leave No Securities Behind Act.” The bill that would close a gaping hole in U.S. financial disclosure laws.
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Policy Letter
Letter to Department of Interior Employees
The increasingly stringent restrictions on what information government employees can share with the American public has severely compromised citizens' ability to participate in their own government. The Project On Government Oversight, Campaign for America's Lands, Government ...
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Analysis
When is a Nuke not a Nuke?
The critical issue at stake is the counting rules being used: in particular, U.S. plans to keep many more than 2,200 weapons in storage for potential re-deployment later. With nuclear weapons kept in various stages of readiness and dismantlement, there are many ways to measure...
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Analysis
Nuclear Time Warp
President George W. Bush's new Nuclear Posture Review harks back to the stone age, or at least to the 1950s, when America's most beautiful minds struggled to devise a strategy to deal with the original rogue state — the Soviet Union. The latest exercise to devise a nuclear str...
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AnalysisNuclear Attack: A Remote if Real Possibility
Today, as the United States bombs terrorist sites and other targets in Afghanistan, the prospect of a nuclear terrorist attack looms larger as a domestic security concern. The likelihood of such an attack, government officials and experts say, may be small - but the possible c...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to House Armed Services Committee on 2004 Defense Authorization
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) has been closely monitoring Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's attempts to transform the U.S. military into a more relevant and cost-effective fighting force. POGO has been encouraged by Secretary Rumsfeld's seeming determination to ...
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Policy Letter
POGO to Congress: Services Acquisition Reform Act (SARA) Would Fleece Taxpayer
We urge you to exercise caution in approving any of the provisions of SARA which may make significant changes to existing procurement statutes without full consideration of their effects. Some provisions of the newly drafted SARA would broadly affect all types of contracts inc...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to Energy Secretary Abraham recommending immediate competition of management contract of Los Alamos
Senator Pete Domenici recommends that the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) contract should be allowed to run to term ending 2005, and then be competed. However, we understand from sources that you feel that the University of California (UC) management failures uncovered s...
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Testimony
Speech by POGO’s Danielle Brian, before the Regulatory Information Conference of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is an investigative organization that works with inside sources to improve public policy. Founded in 1981, POGO is a politically-independent, non-profit watchdog that strives to promote a government that is accountable to the citizenr...