Afghanistan Watchdog Hunts $36 Million White Elephant

Afghanistan Watchdog Hunts $36 Million White Elephant The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) concluded a nearly two-year investigation into the construction of a $36 million U.S. Marine command and control center in southwestern Afghanistan. The 64,000 square foot facility at Camp Leatherneck, the so-called “64K building,” was completed in 2013 but was never used by the Marines. Read more Editor's Choice SASC Finally Reports Breakdown of Vote to Close NDAA With little fanfare, the Senate Armed Services Committee finally released its NDAA report—and with it, the rulebreaking roll call vote from April 23, 2015. A month after the vote was held. Read more Energy Dept. Labs Seek Exemption from IT Oversight POGO has learned that the Department of Energy National Laboratories are seeking an exemption from a new law that would increase transparency and accountability of spending on IT. Read more Afghanistan Watchdog Hunts $36 Million White Elephant The Afghanistan reconstruction watchdog released its findings regarding an unused command facility at Camp Leatherneck that cost taxpayers $36 million. Read more A National Action Plan for Contract Reform For the upcoming 3rd National Action Plan, POGO is proposing 8 commitments that will advance contracting transparency. Read more From the World of POGO POGO Joins Groups in Defending the Office of Congressional Ethics The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) has done much over the last seven years to increase the integrity and credibility of the House ethics process. That is why we are disturbed by the recent effort by former House Ethics Committee staff director Dan Schwager to blame, without any evidence, the leak of a recent Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) investigative report on OCE. Read more POGO Senior Investigator Peter Stockton Retires “Peter’s work holding the nuclear weapons complex accountable led to many critical safety and security improvements at federal facilities across the country and made millions of people who live near these sites safer,” said POGO Chief Operating Officer Keith Rutter. Read more 24 Groups Object to DoD's Attempt to Amend FOIA in the NDAA 22 organizations joined POGO and Openthegovernment.org in reaching out to Senate leadership to express our opposition to the Department of Defense's request to change how they are subject to FOIA in FY16's National Defense Authorization Act. Read more The Truth will set you Free.