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AnalysisFacts on FISA: Correcting the Record on the Section 702 House Floor Debate
As we move forward with this new iteration of Section 702, it’s critical to look back at the debate and correct the record on inaccurate statements about this law and the proposals to reauthorize it. The following is a compilation of all factual errors that I uncovered while r...
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AnalysisInvestigative Lead: Air Force Actively Defies Congressional Mandate to Maintain A-10 Fleet
The Air Force has no intention of renewing efforts to purchase new wings for more than 100 A-10s, despite a Congressional mandate to do so. According to sources inside the room, the A-10 program manager told a recent gathering of A-10 officials that the project “was not going ...
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Public Comment
POGO Supports Interim Rule Amending Process By Which IRS Determines If Contractors Have Tax Debts
POGO issued a public comment supporting a Treasury Department interim rule that improves the way IRS contracting officers determine whether prospective contractors owe federal taxes and thus may be ineligible to receive federal funds.
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AnalysisNew Year’s Irresolution: Peering into 2018
The latest pablum and portents from the Pentagon’s must-read list
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AnalysisPrivatized Tax Collection Loses Money
For the third time the IRS hired contractors to collect unpaid federal taxes, and for the third time the effort is falling short: contractors are costing more than they are collecting while making a bad situation even worse for low-income taxpayers.
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AnalysisAudit Finds Pentagon Task Force Squandered Millions, Had Few Successes
A Pentagon office that spent $675 million on economic development projects in Afghanistan was rife with waste and achieved “mixed results,” according to an audit report released this week by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
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Policy Letter
Civil Society Urges Congress to Rein in Surveillance Authorization
A bipartisan coalition of 44 organizations today urged members of the House of Representatives to vote "YES" on the USA RIGHTS amendment and "NO" on theFISA Amendments Reauthorization Act (S. 139) if the USA RIGHTS amendment does not pass.
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AnalysisHurricane Harvey, Irma, and Maria Contract Spending Revisited
Much has changed since POGO last crunched the numbers on the federal government’s outlays on contracts responding to last year’s hurricanes. For one thing, Pentagon spending data is starting to trickle in.
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AnalysisFederal Fraud Recoveries Decline in Fiscal Year 2017
The Justice Department announced it recovered $3.7 billion in civil fraud and false claims cases in fiscal year 2017—nearly one-quarter less than the previous year.
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Policy LetterOpen Letter from Republican and/or Conservative Former Elected and Senior Officials Defending Mueller
It is critical that the Special Counsel be allowed to complete his review with the full support of DOJ and without interference, for the benefit of the country as well as for that of the Administration.
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Analysis
Keeping the Independence of the Special Counsel: The President Should Support—Not Interfere With—Investigations Into His Administration
Attempting to influence or shut down the Special Counsel, an authorized, independent law enforcement investigation, undermines a cornerstone foundation upon which America was built: that we are a nation based on laws, not merely subjective decisions of senior government offic...
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Policy Letter
Civil Society Urges Congress to Support the Special Counsel Integrity Act
Nonpartisan civil society organizations sent a letter to Members of Congress today urging them to support the bipartisan and bicameral Special Counsel Integrity Act.