POGO Sends Letters to Sessions and Town Calling for Recusal
Washington, D.C.)—Today, POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian sent letters to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and US Attorney Jay Town calling on them to recuse themselves from any and all involvement...
View ArticleExclusive: CIA Whistleblower Lawsuit Highlights Lack of Agency Accountability...
A previously unreported federal lawsuit by an undercover CIA operative charges a CIA chief of station, and others in the Agency’s elite Directorate of Operations with illegally retaliating against him...
View ArticleTop Federal Contractors Spend Millions on Influence, Get Billions in Contracts
The federal government's 100 largest contractors received an incredible return on their investment in lobbying and election contributions in FY 2016, spending just $289 million on political influence...
View ArticlePOGO Report Details String of Lawsuits Alleging Detention Companies Engage in...
The labor practices at several immigrant detention centers, mostly run by private prison companies, violate the Constitution’s ban on slavery and minimum wage laws, according to a growing number of...
View ArticleRecords Originally Requested by POGO Eleven Years Ago Help Explain FEMA...
Yesterday, NBC News reported that Daniel “Dan” Craig, President Trump’s nominee for Deputy Administrator at FEMA, withdrew his nomination for the senior position at the agency. POGO has been conducting...
View ArticlePress Statement: Senate Passes Defense Spending Bill Drafted in Secret
After a week of debate over only a handful of amendments presented by Senators, the U.S. Senate passed the $700 billion FY 2018 Pentagon spending bill. read more
View ArticlePOGO Launches Congressional Oversight Fellowship
Today, the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) launched the Congressional Oversight Fellowship, which will send talented, skeptical individuals to spend a year working in Congress, learning about...
View ArticleNewly Introduced Surveillance Act Fails to Fully Protect American Citizens
Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. read more
View ArticleThe Trump Administration Must Fill Remaining IG Vacancies
Yesterday, President Trump told Forbes in an interview that he will leave “a lot” of appointments vacant, citing the size of the federal government as his reason. While the size of the political...
View ArticlePress Statement: POGO Applauds Congress for Passing Dr. Chris Kirkpatrick...
Today, Congress sent to President Trump’s desk for signature the Dr. Chris Kirkpatrick Whistleblower Protection Act, which requires agencies to punish supervisors who have been found to have retaliated...
View ArticleBREAKING: CIA IG Nominee Accused of Violating Laws He Would Need to Enforce
Today, the Project On Government Oversight released a report revealing that there are outstanding whistleblower retaliation claims against Christopher H. Sharpley, President Trump’s nominee to be the...
View ArticleSessions Intervened to Help Major Donors Targeted In Ongoing DOJ Bribery...
As a Senator, Jeff Sessions took actions to oppose the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) efforts to make one of his biggest campaign contributors, coal giant Drummond, pay to clean up a polluted...
View ArticleMembers of Civil Society Groups Demand Government Reconvene Committee that...
This week, the civil society members of a U.S. federal advisory committee sent a letter to its government and industry counterparts and Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke demanding that meetings of...
View ArticleAs Grand Jury Issues Indictment, Congress Should Continue Bipartisan Russian...
Media Contacts: Danielle Brian, Executive Director at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), dbrian@pogo.org or 202-347-1122; or Tim Farnsworth, Chief Communications Strategist at POGO,...
View ArticlePress Statement: The Executive Branch Cannot and Should Not Stonewall...
Today, Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (HOGR) are filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration for refusing to turn over documents requested relevant to that...
View ArticlePress Statement: POGO Condemns U.S. Withdrawal from International...
Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior withdrew the United States from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the international initiative that requires governments to publicly...
View ArticlePress Statement: POGO Applauds Effort to Protect Intelligence Community...
Today, the House Judiciary Committee will consider amendments to the USA Liberty Act of 2017, which reauthorizes the programs in Section 702 of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA),...
View ArticleThe Constitution Project Officially Becomes Part of the Project On Government...
Founded 20 years ago to combat the increasing partisan divide regarding our constitutional rights and liberties, TCP has brought together people of diverse experiences and political philosophies to...
View ArticlePress Statement: Extension of the Governments Warrantless Surveillance...
Jake Laperruque, Senior Counsel for The Constitution Project at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), jlaperruque@pogo.org or 202-347-1122; or Tim Farnsworth, Chief Communications Strategist at...
View ArticleTrump Administration Blocks Access to Report on Handling of the Travel Ban;...
WASHINGTON – Today, two open government organizations called on the Trump Administration to immediately release an Inspector General’s report detailing how the administration carried out its...
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