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Report: Interior Dept. Took No Action After Official Accepted Oil Industry Gifts

By | 10.13.10 | 11:09 am

The Interior Department did not “appropriately respond” to an inspector general report that found former Bureau of Land Management Farmington, N.M., District Manager Steve Henke did not report gifts he received from the oil industry, a Project on Government Oversight investigation has found.

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Government Watchdog Warns Against Oversight Agency Expansion

By | 02.23.10 | 5:58 pm

The Project on Government Oversight today sent a stark warning to Congress: Don’t let the commercials paid for by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) fool you, because they’re the last people to whom you want to give expanded regulatory authority. According to POGO, FINRA’s incompetence or deliberate More…

POGO Blasts State Department Over ArmorGroup Oversight Before Wartime Contracting Commission

By | 09.14.09 | 10:22 am

The congressionally chartered commission on wartime contracting is meeting today, and one of its witnesses is Danielle Brian, the Project on Government Oversight executive director who blew the lid off of ArmorGroup’s failures in protecting the U.S. embassy in Kabul.  In her prepared testimony, she excoriates the State Department More…

Watchdog Calls for Oversight of Private Fund Managers Advising Government

By | 05.19.09 | 4:07 pm

Since the Obama administration doesn’t seem all that concerned about potential conflicts of interest of having private fund managers advising the government on its $1.25 trillion mortgage-backed securities purchase program while also investing in similar assets on behalf of private clients, the Project on Government Oversight sent More…

Internal FDA Doc Reveals Agency Stopped Enforcing Safety Standards

By | 02.18.09 | 10:15 am

Since 2006, the Food and Drug Administration has ignored its own internal regulation and stopped requiring manufacturers of medical devices – such as pacemakers, heart valves and other life-sustaining inventions – to meet specific safety requirements before they are deemed safe enough to be implanted in humans.

As the Project More…