Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Ha ve a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor.
Oil Spill
'Our most sincere apologies' : Transocean's top executives to donate bonuses ***
Tom Fowler, Houston Chronicle
*** BUT:
Transocean Execs Keep Most Of Their Bonuses
Jeff McMahon, The Ingenuity of the Commons
BP to Face Tough Crowd at Meeting
Guy Chazan, Wall Street Journal
Open Government
With Transparency Bill, Federal Government Acknowledges Internet Exists
Siddhartha Mahanta, Mother Jones
Defense Spending
Pentagon expects smaller budget in 2012
John T. Bennett, The Hill
Libya War Costs M.I.A.
Spencer Ackerman, Danger Room
Financial Oversight
In Corporate Disclosure, a Murky Definition of Material
Steven M. Davidoff, DealBook
POGO Impact
From the opening remarks of Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in yesterday's House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing:
"The Project on Government Oversight (POGO), an independent, non-profit organization that investigates government misconduct, directly calls into question the objectivity of the State Department's Inspector General's office and of its leadership. Among other things, POGO questions the Ambassador's personal ties to Department management. Citing various emails it has obtained, POGO asserts that the Ambassador was doing just enough regarding State's operations in Iraq to try to avoid losing jurisdiction to the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, but not enough to identify and address the problems."
Photo: Minerals Management Service, See: MMS Thought Deepwater Horizon was Award-Winningly SAFE from last April
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