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Investigating corruption & abuse of power, demanding accountability. Home of #CDI, #COI, #OTG, @ConPro. Contact us securely: https://t.co/VxIiQQcTup
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COMING UP IN A FEW DAYS: our letter to the editor training! Join us on Nov. 19th to learn all you need to know about making your voice heard and writing letters to the editor. Sign up here before space runs out: https://t.co/jhaiuRi3aC
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What is a letter to the editor? Why are they useful? How do you begin writing one? Join us for our next LTE training Wednesday, November 19th to explore the answers to these questions and start...
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ICYMI: our latest investigation ⬇️ Federal shows that, under Gregory Bovino's leadership, Border Patrol agents in the El Centro Sector have used force far more often than they’ve faced assault.
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Border Patrol agents in the El Centro Sector have reported using force on other people more than three times as many times as they have faced assaults – a ratio higher than anywhere else in the...
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This week's #TheBunker w/ Mark Thompson @POGOwatchdog: Whenever Congress asks the military what it needs, it’s a safe bet the right answer is “more.” No one inside the Pentagon gets their hands on the levers of power if they say “less.”
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This week in The Bunker: DOD's new way of buying things, Air Force wants more, and the disgraceful Senate
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Greg Bovino, who's been in charge of the LA and Chicago raids, has come under scrutiny for agents' use of force. And new data shows that Bovino has a history leading a Border Patrol sector in which use of force far outpaces assaults on officers. More: https://t.co/mOMlDt2PTN
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Want to learn more about Greg Bovino's track record after listening to The Daily's interview of him? https://t.co/ypdongvj31 You might want to give @pogowatchdog's new investigation a read...
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Podcast Episode · The Daily · 11/12/2025 · 40m
Border Patrol's Greg Bovino is reportedly headed to Charlotte and New Orleans next. Read our new investigation revealing that Bovino has historically presided over a disproportionate amount of use-of-force incidents:
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This bill protects funding for the Government Accountability Office for another year and protects federal workers from mass reductions in force through January.
President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill, ending a record 43-day shutdown — the longest in nation's history — hours after the House passed the measure on a mostly party-line vote of 222-209.
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In the piece, POGO revealed the scale of the mold problem in military housing and how a gap in federal standards has contributed to the issue:
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Newly obtained documents reveal the scale of the military’s mold problem amid a gaping hole in federal standards.
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Congrats to our senior investigator @ziembavision for winning an EPPY in community service reporting for her investigation on mold in military housing!
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Border Patrol's Greg Bovino is reportedly headed to Charlotte and New Orleans next. Read our new investigation revealing that Bovino has historically presided over a disproportionate amount of use-of-force incidents:
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Border Patrol agents in the El Centro Sector have reported using force on other people more than three times as many times as they have faced assaults – a ratio higher than anywhere else in the...
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We know that many have been looking for ways to raise their voices about National Guard troops that have been deployed in cities across the country. Well, we’ve got an opportunity to do so— we’re hosting another letter to the editor training next week!⬇️
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What is a letter to the editor? Why are they useful? How do you begin writing one? Join us for our next LTE training Wednesday, November 19th to explore the answers to these questions and start...
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Trump removed the acting watchdog for the Federal Housing Finance Agency last week, one of several recent removals of acting inspectors general. As POGO's Faith Williams said, “We are looking at a system now that is much weaker."
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Trump has replaced at least five acting IGs and fired nearly 20 of the oversight officials.
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Border Patrol agents led by Greg Bovino have used force far more often relative to assaults they've faced than anywhere else in that agency, according to a new @POGOwatchdog & @irworkshop analysis of four years of federal data https://t.co/nr4JkowbrD
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Border Patrol agents in the El Centro Sector have reported using force on other people more than three times as many times as they have faced assaults – a ratio higher than anywhere else in the...
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Greg Bovino has tried to justify use of force in Chicago and LA by citing assaults against agents. But new data shows that over the last 4 fiscal years, Border Patrol agents in Bovino's sector have used force far more often than they’ve faced assault:
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Border Patrol agents in the El Centro Sector have reported using force on other people more than three times as many times as they have faced assaults – a ratio higher than anywhere else in the...
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POGO's @virginiajburger spoke at #TheHillVeterans Summit event today- check it out:
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Ten orgs spanning the political spectrum agree—the Pentagon budget doesn't need another increase. Letter: https://t.co/My77Ph2J6t
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"When it comes to the War Powers Resolution, said Project on Government Oversight policy analyst David Janovsky, 'presidents have kind of taken it and run with it for 60 days, and then dared Congress to stop them.'”
A senior Trump administration official said that military strikes against alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific do not rise to the level of hostilities that would legally require congressional approval after 60 days. https://t.co/vpa14vQxms
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Virginia Burger, Senior Defense Policy Analyst at the Project On Government Oversight (@POGOwatchdog), joins The Hill's Veterans Voices Summit to examine domestic deployment & housing challenges for the National Guard. #TheHillVeterans
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ICYMI: POGO's own experts-- a Pulitzer Prize-winning Pentagon reporter and former USMC press officer-- reflect on the latest restrictions from Hegseth’s DOD.
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning Pentagon reporter and a former USMC press officer reflect on the latest restrictions from Hegseth’s DOD.
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URGENT: The Senate is slated to vote on the bipartisan legislation that would bar the U.S. from conducting operations inside Venezuela without congressional authorization as soon as TODAY. Tell your representatives to vote YES:
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Make sure to read this article from @chicagotribune, featuring a great explanation from POGO's Katherine Hawkins of the differences between ICE and Border Patrol: https://t.co/QUOcMchdkE
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Instead of carefully targeted arrests long practiced by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Trump administration has deployed roving groups of masked Border Patrol agents, who work wi…
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