“The culture of secrecy that pervades Washington borders on the absurd. American officials say they cannot discuss “classified” U.S. counter-terrorism tactics that are well-known worldwide - from water-boarding to drone strikes to data mining.
The White House refuses to release the legal memo it used it used to justify the killing of an American citizen in a drone strike in Yemen. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court will not publish summaries of the rulings that made data mining legal. And Feinstein will not declassify a redacted version of her committee’s 6,000 page report on the Bush administration’s use of enhanced interrogation techniques.
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This Isn't The First Time Booz Allen Has Been in Trouble →
The revelation that it was Edward Snowden, an employee of National Security Agency contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, who blew the whistle on the NSA’s surveillance programs has thrust Booz Allen Hamilton into the spotlight. Unfortunately, their track record of business ethics and integrity has largely escaped scrutiny.
Congress Wants to Spend $3 Billion on Missile Defense that DoD Says We Don't Need →
The U.S. military has no need for an East Coast missile defense site, according to top officers who oversee the weaponry. “There is no validated military requirement to deploy an East Coast missile…
Report: Possible Cover-Up of Sex and Drugs at the State Department →
An internal memo reveals that the State Department “covered up” allegations of illegal behavior by its security officials including sexual assault and solicitation of prostitution, according to a report by CBS News.
What makes you excited about open government?
“The ‘universe’ of programs and processes in need of reform at the Pentagon is more than large enough to allow for compliance with so-called sequestration while maintaining the strongest and most capable military the world has ever known”
– R Street Institute and National Taxpayers Union Report, June 2013
Read more about the $1.8 trillion in savings the report found.
“All an agency needs to say is that you’re a security risk and your rights turn into a mirage.”
-Tom Devine of the Government Accountability Project on a new rule that would let the government deem almost any job “sensitive” and effectively take away that employee’s whistleblower rights.
“It is a huge, bloated, excessively expensive money pit.”
- Three soldiers call the Army’s battlefield intelligence network a multibillion-dollar dud.
