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By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 4th, 2009The Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is an economic stimulus plan intended to re-start America’sfaltering economy. But in allocating the Recovery Act’s highway…

By Cliff Montgomery – July 31st, 2009The House Intelligence Committee last month stated that the Pentagon has clouded the distinction betweenordinary intelligence collection–which is overseen by congressional intelligence panels–and “clandestine”military…

By Cliff Montgomery – July 27th, 2009A short Congressional Research Service report issued on July 17th discusses the first of President Obama’s”sweeping reforms of the financial services regulatory system.”The American…

By Cliff Montgomery – July 24th, 2009John Holdren, President Obama’s Science and Technology Adviser, on June 16th released a major study onthe problems that America may soon face thanks to…

By Cliff Montgomery – July 20th, 2009A climate bill which the House of Representatives passed in June will fail to achieve its goals without a sharpincrease in research and development…

By Cliff Montgomery – July 15th, 2009Congress in 2008 instructed intelligence agency Inspectors General to draft an unclassified study on the BushAdministration’s domestic spying program. That report was released on…

By Cliff Montgomery- July 10th, 2009America’s post-9/11 security classification system appears to cost taxpayers around $10 billion every year,states a recent government study.Data classification activities in government and industry totaled…

By Cliff Montgomery – July 6th, 2009The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) lacks the ability to fully determine its emergencypreparedness–even though since 2003 the federal government has spent nearly $5…

By Cliff Montgomery – July 1st, 2009Cassava is a plant first grown in the tropics of the Americas. Millions around the world now depend on its starchy root as a…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 26th, 2009Top U.S. representatives had large holdings in the very financial institutions which received billions in taxpayerbailouts last year, declares recently released financial disclosure reports.From…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 22nd, 2009A U.N. legal interpretation released in 2000 states that health care is a basic human right recognized by international law, declaring that “the right…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 17th, 2009President Obama’s budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 will continue a dangerous under-funding of theConsumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the top federal regulator of…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 12th, 2009There’s been a lot of talk over the last few years on precisely what–if anything–the American people need to know about their government: how…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 7th, 2009″Terrorists and foreign governments regularly [find ways] to obtain sensitive dual-use and military technologyfrom manufacturers and distributors within the United States,” according to a…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 4th, 2009Billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are being spent to bail out Wall Street tycoons. Thus it’s perhaps understandable that the feds would hire private…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 31st, 2009Oil prices soon will post their greatest one-month spike since May, 1999. It’s still too early to determine if thissharp rise will usher in…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 26th, 2009The Obama Administration is quietly creating a Defense Department command which will “develop newoffensive cyber-weapons,” according to a little-noticed article in The Washington Post…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 23rd, 2009There is discussion in the White House and on Capitol Hill of extending taxpayer-funded bailouts to a host ofother huge financial institutions, under the…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 20th, 2009A May Government Accountability Office report on Afghanistan reveals that the U.S. emergency responseprogram intended to rebuild the war-torn nation is in trouble, and…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 14th, 2009A Congressional Research Service report from 2008 discussed a matter which has barely received noticefrom America’s corporate press: The United States’ unprecedented use of…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 11th, 2009When photos of torture at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison surfaced in 2004, Bush Administration officials quicklypainted Army Private Charles Graner Jr. as the de-facto…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 7th, 2009The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a not-for-profit organization which promotes “corporate and governmental accountability by advancing occupational free speech, defending whistleblowers, and empowering…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 2nd, 2009The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 13th released a study discussing how the U.S. mayrepair its badly damaged diplomatic relations with the rest…