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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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CommentaryNo, Clearview AI’s creepy plan to spy on us is not ‘free speech’
This mass surveillance is misguided and sinister. We must push back before it’s too late
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CommentaryNever the Pentagon
How The Military-Industrial Complex Gets Away With Murder in Contract After Contract
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CommentaryImpeachment: Frequently Asked Questions
What is impeachment, how does it work, and what’s going to happen?
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CommentaryJanuary Oversight Training: Working with Agency and Industry Counsel
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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CommentaryCongress Should Hold Trump’s Top Aides in Contempt While It Still Can
By rushing this impeachment process, the House runs the risk of diminishing its oversight power even further going forward
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CommentaryJack Mitchell: Public Interest Warrior
We had the pleasure of knowing Jack Mitchell for 30 years, working with him most closely when he served as a POGO Board member from 1991 until 2007. He was a life-long investigator who had a rare trait for a Washington person—he never sold out.
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CommentaryAn Acting Director and a Permanent Move
It’s well past time for the Bureau of Land Management to have a Senate-confirmed director.
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CommentaryIntroducing Indispensable
POGO’s new twice-weekly newsletter on the impeachment proceedings against President Trump
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CommentaryThe Bottom Line on the Impeachment Process
The House’s impeachment procedure clears the Constitution’s bar, but establishing more rules can’t hurt.
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CommentaryDoes America Need a Space Force?
A new service branch would put more bureaucracy between critical capabilities and the troops who need them.
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CommentaryCorrupted Oversight: The FAA, Boeing, and the 737 Max
The FAA’s approval process for the plane was fraught with lapses in safety regulation, precipitated by an institutional culture of deference to industry at the expense of accountability.
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CommentaryStop Attacking the Right to Report
Both the Inspector General and the Whistleblower Followed the Law