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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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AnalysisHistorically High Pentagon Spending Creates a Hollow Force
Historically high Pentagon budgets aren’t a problem because they steal funds from other programs. They’re a problem because the force they produce is smaller and less effective than it should be.
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AnalysisThe Incredibly Shrinking Defense Industry
Fewer contractors mean less competition and innovation
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Policy Letter
POGO Endorses No Biometric Barriers to Housing Act
POGO is proud to support legislation that would prevent the use of facial recognition surveillance in public housing.
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AnalysisFacial Recognition Surveillance Doesn’t Necessarily Make You Safer
If we don’t recognize facial recognition’s problems and implement policies to mitigate them, the technology will sweep innocent individuals into investigations, undercut police-community relations, and waste law enforcement resources.
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Policy Letter
POGO Endorses Bill to Increase Oversight of Wartime Spending
POGO is proud to endorse a bipartisan bill that creates an independent commission to examine waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement of wartime contracts, greatly benefiting taxpayers and troops.
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CommentaryClosing the Door on Advice
It’s a mistake for the administration to ignore the importance of advisory committees and cast aside transparency and accountability for some theoretical streamlined expediency.
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Policy Letter
POGO Joins Call for Hold on FAA Nominee Citing Pending Whistleblower Complaint
Whistleblower advocates urge the Senate not to confirm the nominee for the head of the Federal Aviation Administration until a whistleblower retaliation claim directly involving the nominee is resolved.
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CommentaryPolitical Interference at DOJ Threatens the Rule of Law, and Congress Needs to Act
This issue isn’t just about politics. When it comes to the economy, the White House (like any federal agency) shouldn’t be picking winners and losers.
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AnalysisJuly Oversight Training: Making the Most of Your Resources, Part 2: CRS
POGO's Congressional Training Program aims to educate Hill staffers and other people in the legislative branch about the oversight powers of Congress.
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Policy LetterBroad Coalition Supports Ethics Amendments to the Defense Policy Bill
Civil society groups from across the political spectrum urge the House to support amendments to strengthen ethics laws and shine a light on potentially dangerous conflicts of interest at the Pentagon.
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CommentaryAssange’s Indictment: A Threat to Everyone
Neither the Espionage Act nor the classification system were meant to be used to hide serious government wrongdoing. But they can be applied that way, and they certainly have been.
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TestimonyWhistleblower Retaliation at the Department of Veterans Affairs
Two years after the VA’s whistleblower office was created, the agency’s culture of retaliation persists