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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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AnalysisBad Contracting Decision Comes Back to Haunt Pentagon
The Pentagon is still suffering the consequences of hiring Efraim Diveroli, the Miami Beach military supplier whose exploits landed him in prison and inspired the film War Dogs. He recently won a long-running dispute with the government over canceled contracts to supply weapon...
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AnalysisNew Report Confirms Whistleblower Retaliation is Alive and Well at Department of Veterans Affairs
A new GAO report confirms POGO’s fears that the Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protections lacks adequate independence.
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AnalysisExplaining Secret Surveillance
Americans are dangerously vulnerable to unchecked FISA surveillance, but the discussion of the Carter Page warrant misses the real problem.
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AnalysisRacial Discrimination in the Courts: The Case of Marcus Robinson
Racial discrimination in jury selection threatens the criminal justice system and the integrity and application of the Constitution. In one case, North Carolina seeks to ignore it.
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AnalysisPaper Cuts: From Russia with Love
The Justice Department’s charging documents on Russian election interference read like a real-life spy novel.
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Analysis27 and Counting: Another Background-Check “Dumper” Pleads Guilty
Last week, a former contractor pleaded guilty to falsifying federal security clearance investigations—the twenty-seventh such conviction in 10 years.
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Analysis“Zero Tolerance” and Border Crisis Need Congressional Oversight
POGO is calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to begin an investigation into the crisis of immigration enforcement and detention along our nation’s southwest border.
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AnalysisPOGO’s Suggestions to Congress: Oversight to Counter Foreign Interference
Members of Congress expressing disapproval of President Trump’s comments in Helsinki about Russian election interference can and should also conduct oversight of eight issue areas relating to foreign interference in our democratic systems.
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AnalysisFCC Chairman Throws a Wrench in Proposed Sinclair-Tribune Merger—At Least for Now
The deal would make Sinclair an unparalleled local-television behemoth.
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AnalysisPaper Cuts: No Match for Mother’s Milk
Baby-food makers latch on to breastfeeding policy to sell formula.
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AnalysisChamber Music: Corporations Attain Harmony with Federal Corruption Laws
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce lately seems to have softened its longstanding opposition to the False Claims Act and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the federal government’s most powerful tools for deterring corporate corruption and protecting taxpayer money.
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AnalysisPrivacy After Carpenter: We Need Warrants for Real-Time Tracking and “Electronic Exhaustion”
The Supreme Court’s Carpenter decision greatly expanded location privacy rights, but serious problems remain. Congress should act swiftly to enact a warrant requirement for real-time cellphone tracking and create “electronic exhaustion.”