October 14th, 2009

Last Thursday marked the second event in our Whistleblower Film Series.  And although we moved across the hall to a new theater in the [...] Continue Reading…

October 8th, 2009

“Yet the C-17’s excellence is one of those facts that is indisputably true but irrelevant to the issue at hand, like the assertion that [...] Continue Reading…

October 2nd, 2009

Last night we kicked off the DC Labor FilmFest’s Whistleblower Film Series with “The Pentagon Wars”— based on the book of the same title [...] Continue Reading…

October 2nd, 2009

Last week, we learned that POGO Program Editor Danni Downing was reading Berkeley Rice’s The C-5A Scandal: An Inside Story of the Military-Industrial Complex. [...] Continue Reading…

September 23rd, 2009

We’ve seen the people of POGO demonstrate their athletic prowess — now it’s time for them to share their scholarly leanings.  Each staffer was [...] Continue Reading…

September 17th, 2009

“Usually, of course, you don’t need to dance around the fact that your policy change will save taxpayers giant sacks of cash. But you [...] Continue Reading…

September 11th, 2009

“In a nutshell, the S.E.C. staff was not capable of finding ice cream at a Dairy Queen.”

- Harry Markopolos, a Boston-based fraud investigator, describing [...] Continue Reading…

September 11th, 2009

Hang around the POGO office long enough and you’ll notice that POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian credits her Smith College education when she thinks [...] Continue Reading…

September 3rd, 2009

Machiavelli taught those seeking to expand their power to be suspicious of mercenaries.  Trying to revive Italy back to its former greatness would be [...] Continue Reading…

August 21st, 2009

Senate Staffer Paul Thacker has been a  panelist on POGO’s Congressional Oversight Training Sessions and a guest speaker for our Brown Bag Lunch Series.  [...] Continue Reading…