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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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AnalysisSecDef Mattis Commends IG Efforts and Highlights DoD Shortcomings
Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis uses an Inspector General report on Department of Defense misspending in Afghanistan to highlight agency-wide issues.
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AnalysisMeet the Newest Pentagon Slush Fund
No longer satisfied with abusing the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) war spending account, Congress has created a new slush fund for the Pentagon called the “National Defense Restoration Fund.”
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AnalysisOne Huge Unanswered Question in Key Surveillance Debate
The intelligence community has yet to provide an estimate of US persons whose information have been collected by government surveillance programs. Meanwhile, a key internal government watchdog remains powerless to provide recommendations on the issue.
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AnalysisWill Trump Privatize the Afghanistan War?
Last week brought disturbing news that two prominent voices from the private security industry— Erik Prince and Stephen Feinberg—are trying to convince the Pentagon to let private security firms replace American troops in Afghanistan. We explain why this is a bad idea.
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AnalysisCongress is Afraid to be Responsible for Our Current Wars
House leadership used a procedural gimmick to block an amendment offered by Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) in order to avoid an up or down vote to authorize our current wars.
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AnalysisCongress Has Constitutional Mandate to Investigate
Congress and the executive branch are not only capable of conducting concurrent investigations, they have successfully done so in the past.
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AnalysisCongressional Caucuses Demand Transparency from ICE
The leaders of several Congressional caucuses delivered a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement on July 11 demanding data on the nation’s detention centers.
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AnalysisPOGO Applauds New White House Policy Statement
The Trump Administration has rightly criticized several bad provisions in the House NDAA bill including funding the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, blocking Base Realignment and Closure, misusing the Overseas Contingency Operations fund, and limiting defense contract au...
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AnalysisDefense Audit Reveals $1 Billion in Missing Receipts
A declassified defense audit reveals that in 2016, about $1 billion worth of military equipment to combat ISIL had incomplete receipts.
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AnalysisCongress Greases Flightpath for the F-35 Boondoggle
Politicians bedazzled by fighter plane that can’t fight.
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