Homeland Security Trade Show Deserted Even As Industry Keeps On Growing
WASHINGTON -- More than a decade after 9/11, it isn't easy to stage a "first-of-its-kind" event centered on homeland security and counterterrorism. ...
WASHINGTON -- More than a decade after 9/11, it isn't easy to stage a "first-of-its-kind" event centered on homeland security and counterterrorism. ...
Joe Newman | Posted 05.08.2012
This human trafficking pipeline wasn't benefiting some shadowy war lord or oppressive regime. No, these are workers who were feeding, cleaning up after and providing logistical support for U.S. troops -- the standard bearers of the free and democratic world.
Project On Government Oversight | Posted 04.19.2012
From now on, Booz Allen will require all new hires to certify they do not possess non-public or proprietary information from a past employer and that they have not brought, nor intend to bring, such information to Booz Allen, which exceeds current DoD revolving door requirements.
Project On Government Oversight | Posted 04.09.2012
A major defense contractor is the focus of an apparent ongoing federal probe into its business dealings with Iranian companies -- dealings that could violate U.S. sanctions on Iran.
Project On Government Oversight | Posted 05.14.2012
By JOE NEWMAN Cross-posted on POGO's blog. Regina Dugan's tenure at the Department of Defense's shadowy research arm is apparently over with news that...
Project On Government Oversight | Posted 05.07.2012
POGO has long been concerned about the revolving door phenomenon, and Sunlight's analysis sheds light on its continued prevalence on the Hill.
Ben Freeman | Posted 04.18.2012
Since President Obama released his FY2013 budget request on Monday, proponents of Pentagon waste and inefficiency have been working overtime.
Project On Government Oversight | Posted 04.03.2012
Given current security conditions in Iraq, including a string of bombings since late December more lethal to civilians than any seen in the last year of the U.S. presence, many could be nervous enough to be trigger-happy. Is this war really over or have we just outsourced it?
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.17.2011
You need to spend money to make money, as the saying goes. It's an idea lobbyists might find particularly resonant: Companies that spend money on appe...
David Isenberg | Posted 11.02.2011
Anybody who was dreaming that that the military was going to divest itself of contractors can put that fantasy to rest. Now that the CWC has said the government is over-reliant on contractors, you can see that we have a bit of a contradiction.
Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 10.11.2011
The deal worked out to allow a rise in the debt ceiling gives us our first real chance in more than a decade to make significant cuts to our country's out-of-control war budget, but we are going to have to fight for them.
Project On Government Oversight | Posted 05.25.2011
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. G...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- The military paid a total of $285 billion to more than 100 contractors between 2007 and '09, even though those same companies were defra...
Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011
While Eisenhower was certainly dead-on about the big picture of the military-industrial complex, we can imagine even he might be surprised by the dirty details of how that "complex" has evolved since his farewell speech in 1961.
Linda Keenan | Posted 05.25.2011
In the shadow elite age, when power brokers can have a dozen roles of influence, criss-crossing and sometimes overlapping, sorting through them to pick the most telling ones is both more difficult -- and more imperative -- than ever before.
Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
In summer 2008, the U.S. military had a major problem. More than 2,400 service members had reported being sexually assaulted the previous year, and th...
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Nearly four years after the federal government began a string of investigations and criminal prosecutions against Blackwater Worldwide personnel accus...
ProPublica | T. Christian Miller | Posted 05.25.2011
More private contractors than soldiers were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent months, the first time in history that corporate casualties have ...
washingtonpost.com | Posted 05.25.2011
The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive ...
Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011
Ever heard of a private security contractor name Paravant? XPG? No? Well, that's just as Blackwater, the parent company of Paravant, XPG and dozens of other "subsidiaries", would have it.
Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011
The deep scandal of government contracting goes far beyond the actions of a handful of bad actors and products that can seen and touched. It is systemic, insidious, potentially damaging to national security -- and perfectly legal.
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Posted 05.25.2011
By Nick Schwellenbach and Lagan Sebert This piece is a collaboration between the Huffington Post Investigative Fund and the Center for Public Integr...
Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011
When government contractors hire former directors of intelligence and defense-related government agencies, they are banking on coincidences of interest between their hires and their hires' former (government) employers.
Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011
How far does the crisis of government contracting oversight go? Apparently, it extends deep into some of America's most hallowed ground: Arlington National Cemetery.
AP | JULIE WATSON | Posted 05.25.2011
SAN DIEGO — A U.S. Army contractor kidnapped in Iraq earlier this year described how his captors easily maneuvered past Iraqi checkpoints as he ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.17.2012