By Nick Schwellenbach, crossposted with POGO

There is no shortage of headlines with a variation on a theme such as: "Tea Party Declares War on Military Spending," "Tea Partiers Say Defense In Mix For Budget Cuts," and "Veteran Republicans Fear Tea Party, Liberals Will Unite...

By Nick Schwellenbach, crossposted on POGO's blog

Rolling Stone's Michael Hastings has written another article that's gone viral. Here's how it opens:

The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding...

Cross-posted on POGO's blog

By Nick Schwellenbach

"We have been remiss in our fundamental oversight responsibilities to the Department and the U.S. Government," read suggested talking points for a speech by Stanley Sims, the new Director of the Defense Security Service (DSS), at a conference last...

Cross-posted on POGO's blog.

This morning, veteran defense aerospace reporter Bill Sweetman took a look at the different unit costs of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) variants in the new fiscal year 2012 budget request. His findings suggest that the JSF fighters will be far more expensive--even...

By Joe Newman

If Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius truly wants to make the FDA a "world-class" regulatory agency as she once pledged, she must take seriously the charges of misconduct and mismanagement within the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH).

It has been more...

WikiLeaks killed our whistleblower protections bill -- sort of. After an unbelievable roller coaster of fear and fallacies, votes on and off, and a flurry of activity, when the lights went out in the Capitol Building on December 22, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act was dead.

It may be...

Amid Crackdown on Wall Street, Government Enforcement Efforts Still Questioned

By Adam Zagorin and Michael Smallberg of the Project On Government Oversight (POGO)

For POGO's recommendations, a timeline of the Pequot investigation, and other supplemental information, please go to POGO's report.

The Obama administration has stated it will...

Earlier this week, a broad coalition of groups sent a letter to members of the House of Representatives, urging them to pass S. 372, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act. Over 90 groups have signed on to the letter thus far. As outlined in the letter, it's absolutely imperative...

By Nick Schwellenbach, Angela Canterbury and Danielle Brian

While many in DC are crying into their beers or measuring the windows of their new offices, POGO has a different take on the election. We have been hearing a lot of talk from both Democrats and Republicans characterizing "oversight" as a...

Cross-posted on the Project On Government Oversight's blog.

Inspector General (IG) investigations expose some of the most egregious examples of misconduct by federal officials--everything from whistleblower retaliation to the abuse of taxpayer dollars--and the public has every right to see the (non-classified, non-redacted) results of these investigations. Yet in...