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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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Policy Letter
POGO Joins Groups In Supporting Anti-Gag Statute
POGO and other whistleblower advocates express strong support for restoring historically useful "anti-gag" statutes to this year's appropriation bill.
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Policy Letter
Groups Urge Administration Against Renewing Domestic Surveillance Program
POGO and other groups ask the President and Attorney General to not to renew the Section 215 Bulk Telephony Metadata Program when the current order expires on June 20, 2014.
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Policy Letter
POGO and Partners to Oppose USA FREEDOM Act If Not Amended
An early version of the USA FREEDOM Act contained a number of important reforms to surveillance programs. The current draft, however, fails to address a number of important transparency and accountability measures.
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Policy Letter
POGO Leads Bi-partisan Support for DOD Appropriations Amendments
The United States must curb wasteful and ineffective spending at the Pentagon. Doing so will save billions of valuable tax dollars as well as help to make America safer with the hard decisions our national security requires.
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Policy Letter
POGO Supports Amendment to End Warrantless Searches of Emails
POGO and partners support an amendment that Representatives Massie and Lofgren intend to offer on the Department of Defense Appropriations Act that would end the federal government's warrantless searches of emails and operations that insert electronic "back doors" in...
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Policy Letter
POGO’s Response to VA Inspector General’s Subpoena for Whistleblower Records
POGO received a subpoena for all records it has received related to the failures at the Department of Veterans Affairs. POGO will not comply with the VA's demand, arguing that it violates the Constitution and will harm the underlying mission of the organization.
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Policy Letter
POGO Asks Justice Dept. to Investigate Use of Confidentiality Agreements by Federal Fund Recipients
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) requests that the Department of Justice investigate federal fund recipients using confidentiality or non-disclosure agreements that infringe current and former employees’ federal whistleblower rights in violation of the False Claims A...
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Policy Letter
Advocates Endorse Bipartisan NSA Internal Watchdog Bill
Members of the Make It Safe Coalition, including POGO, support the bipartisan NSA Internal Watchdog Act, which includes accountability reforms of Intelligence Community (IC) abuses of authority and breakdowns in effectiveness.
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Policy Letter
POGO and Partners Call for Changes to USA Freedom Act Draft
Thirty groups ask Congressional leadership to amend USA Freedom Act--an NSA reform bill--to meaningfully restore privacy to Americans.
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Policy Letter
POGO Supports Proposed Rule to Extend Conflict of Interest Requirements for Contractors
POGO has a longstanding interest in the intersection of federal contracting and ethics—namely, ensuring that the same conflict of interest rules that apply to federal employees apply to contractor employees.
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Policy Letter
POGO Supports Drone Strike Transparency in Intelligence Authorization Bill
POGO joins other open government advocates in supporting an amendment to the Intelligence Authorization Act that would increase transparency from the Obama administration about the number of people killed in US drone strikes.
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Policy Letter
POGO Leads Bi-partisan Support for NDAA Amendments
The undersigned organizations may not agree on many things, but we all agree on this: The United States must curb wasteful and ineffective spending at the Pentagon. Doing so will save billions of valuable tax dollars as well as help to make America safer with the hard decision...