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AnalysisPublic Interest Group Wins Legal Fees in Transparency Lawsuit
A California court recently ordered a contractor that tried to block the release of public records to pay the legal expenses of an organization that requested the records.
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AnalysisWhat the Senate Needs to Ask Gina Haspel
A list of questions the Senate needs to ask CIA director nominee Gina Haspel about her role in torture and rendition.
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AnalysisPOGO’s Outsized Tax-Day Impact
Over the past 37 years, the Project On Government Oversight’s investigations have saved taxpayers billions of dollars.
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AnalysisBad Actors Among Border Wall Contractors
Half of the six contractors that built border wall prototypes had questionable track records, including one contractor that the Army Corps of Engineers felt was too risky to do future business with.
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AnalysisThe Navy’s Incredible Shrinking Drone
From stealthy pilotless attack aircraft, to spy plane, to flying gas station
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AnalysisClosing the Loophole on Foreign Influence
How Reform Could Bring Clarity to Shadowy Foreign Influence Law
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AnalysisThe Omnibus Bill: Classic Pentagon Pork Bait and Switch
Lawmakers have spent years lamenting about a military readiness crisis. The way they actually spend money suggests their interests lie not so much in improving the existing force, but in funneling money into new and often unproven weapons that will only exacerbate current prob...
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AnalysisThe Citizenship Question: A Lot Riding on a Single Change in 2020 Census
The Trump Administration wants to add an untested question about citizenship to the 2020 census, but including it could reduce the accuracy of the data—data that we use to apportion Congressional seats to the states and to direct hundreds of billions in federal funds.
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AnalysisU.S. Army Is Trying to Fix Its Afghanistan Trainers’ Career Cul-de-Sac
After 16 long years, it’s finally taking a different path
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AnalysisThree Key Reforms for Facial Recognition and Body Cameras
Police departments are moving forward with plans to incorporate real-time facial recognition in body cameras, creating serious risks to privacy and due process rights. Before adding facial recognition to body cameras, law enforcement should enact three critical safeguards.
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AnalysisPruitt’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
As ethics problems pile up, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt should go.
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AnalysisGovernment Security Clearances Continue to Drop, Backlogs Remain
A new intelligence agency report found fewer government employees and contractors holding security clearances and a worsening backlog of pending security reviews. But the report omits key data, preventing a deeper dive into the findings.