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Analysis
Controlling Costs in Tactical Aircraft Programs: CDI Congressional Testimony on the F/A-22
CDI Congressional Testimony on the F/A-22
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to Senate Committee on Armed Services regarding the circumventing of operational testing and financial accountability of the nation’s missile defense program
In July of last year the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) issued a report detailing the reasons we feared that a sweeping January 2002 Department of Defense (DoD) directive would circumvent operational testing and financial accountability of the nation's missile defense ...
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Testimony
Statement of Danielle Brian, POGO’s Executive Director Minerals Management Service Workshop on Oil Valuation Regulations
In June 2000 the Department of Interior implemented a final oil valuation rule that collected $70 million more annually from companies drilling oil from federal and Indian lands. As a result, the oil industry's decades-long practice of cheating the taxpayers and Indians ended....
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Testimony
Testimony of POGO’s Danielle Brian at the Congressional Forum at Marymount, New York regarding nuclear power plant security and safety
I would first like to thank Representative Lowey for convening this important forum, and asking me to speak to the physical security inadequacies at Indian Point, which are legion. POGO is a non - partisan government watchdog group, which takes no position on nuclear power. Bo...
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Analysis
Another War, another round of landmines?
While UN inspectors are searching for dangerous weapons hidden in Iraq by Saddam Hussein, they must also be wary of American weapons already lurking there.
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Report
Congressional Research Service Products: Taxpayers Should Have Easy Access
$81 million of tax-payer money funded the Congressional Research Service (CRS) in FY 2002. CRS authors products at the request of current Members of Congress, many of whom become lobbyists, but CRS products are made difficult if not impossible for the public to access. CRS als...
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Analysis
Beware The Phony Defense-Budget Prognosticators
The Bush administration has just rolled out its fiscal 2005 defense budget. Starting with a literal confusion of numbers, much of what journalists will write about it will be confusing, if not misleading, and many of the prognostications from Capitol Hill, the Pentagon and the...
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Analysis
A Swift, Elusive Sword, Second Edition
This study of national security and military strategy by Col. (Ret.) Chester Richards (USAF), suggests that ancient strategic wisdom may help solve the dilemma confronting the U.S. military.
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on briefing attended by POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian
Thank you for inviting me to your October 18, 2002 defense briefing and also including me in the December 23, 2002 teleconference briefing with Stephen Cambone. I wanted to send you a follow-up letter with my suggestions to assist you in reaching your goals for reforming the m...
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Policy Letter
POGO letter to Dr. Everet H. Beckner, Deputy Administrator for Defense Program, NNSA, DOE regarding security and safety issues at LANL
Thank you for your letter of October 30, 2002 on our continuing mutual concern over the security and de-inventorying effort at TA-18. We share your concern about the large amount (multiple metric tons) of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) at that site, in the context of the threat...
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AnalysisSept. 11, 2001, Congressional Pork Rises to New Heights
The long-running joke on Capitol Hill is that there are two things one should never see in the making: sausage and legislation. The story of “pork barrel politics” in Congress is not new. But in a new book, “Mr. Smith is Dead: No One Stands in the Way as Congress Laces Post-Se...
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Analysis
Lessons Learned: Using Landmines in a War with Iraq
Today, landmines have gained a reputation as indiscriminate tools of war, killing thousands of innocent civilians every year. The majority of countries in the world have signed the Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty that prevents the use of landmines in conflicts around the world.