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Analysis
Landmines and UXO Endanger Iraqi Population
Iraq’s population has suffered immensely from decades of war. Iraqi civilians feel not only the effects of years of sanctions, malnutrition, and disease, but are plagued by hidden, deadly killers throughout the country: landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO).
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Testimony
Economic Impacts of the National Security Build-up: Government Procurement Practices
The federal government is the biggest consumer of goods and services in the world and relies heavily on free-market forces to ensure fair prices. But a large portion of federal dollars buy goods and services that are not affected by these market forces. Because the government ...
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Analysis
Landmines Remain a Threat
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) has released "Landmine Monitor Report 2002: Toward a Mine Free World." The report, the fourth produced in the annual series, provides a country-by-country analysis of mine use, production, trade, stockpiling, humanit...
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Testimony
Testimony of Danielle Brian, POGO Executive Director : Preventing Nuclear Terrorism before the House Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations, Committee on Government Reform
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) has spent the last 18 months investigating the adequacy of security at U.S. nuclear weapons production facilities, National Labs, and transportation of weapons and Special Nuclear Material, as well as most recently the security at U.S...
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Report
Nuclear Power Plant Security: Voices From Inside the Fences
Security guards at only one of four nuclear power plants are confident their plant could defeat a terrorist attack, according to interviews conducted by POGO for this report. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulates the utilities operating nuclear power plants. The ut...
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Analysis
DOD Office of Force Transformation
In late November, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld named retired Vice Adm. Arthur Cebrowski to head a new Pentagon Office of Force Transformation (OFT), aiming to increase the velocity of an effort to 'transform' the U.S. military to better face the new challenges of ...
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Report
Big Dreams Still Need Oversight: Missile Defense Testing and Accountability are Being Circumvented
The Department of Defense is cutting testing requirements and financial oversight of the missile defense program, one of the most technologically challenging and expensive Pentagon weapons programs ever. History has demonstrated that cutting-edge defense initiatives, lacking o...
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Testimony
Testimony of Eric Miller, Senior Defense Investigator, Project On Government Oversight, on Missile Defense Oversight Before the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans’ Affairs, and International Relations
While we take no position, pro or con, on missile defense, we nonetheless have serious concerns that recent missile defense program changes at the direction of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are not in the best interest of our nation's security or the U.S. taxpayer. Today, ...
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Report
A Partial Approach to Clean-Up: EPA Mishandles Superfund Investigations
This report focuses on the Industrial Excess Landfill, a Superfund site in Ohio, in order to investigate the success of the EPA's Superfund program in accomplishing its mission.
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Testimony
Testimony of POGO’s Danielle Brian, on the EPA National Ombudsman’s Office before the Senate Committee Environment and Public Works
POGO first became aware of a problem when citizens from Lake Township,Ohio, brought the Industrial Excess Landfill (IEL) Superfund site to our attention more than five years ago. From the beginning, citizens, public officials, and independent scientists have raised legitimate ...
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Testimony
Testimony of POGO’s Danielle Brian, before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Just prior to September 11, we completed our report U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex: Security at Risk, concluding that our nation's ten nuclear weapons facilities, which house nearly one thousand tons of weapons-grade plutonium and highly-enriched uranium, regularly fail to prote...
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Report
Federal Contractor Misconduct: Failures of the Suspension and Debarment System
Many of the U.S. government's largest contractors have been found to have repeatedly broken the law or engaged in misconduct, according to POGO's investigation. However, they are never even temporarily suspended, let alone debarred, from gaining additional government contracts...