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Open Government
Most Agencies Are Out of Compliance with Secrecy Policy
Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News
Financial Sector Oversight
FOIA Audit Update: SEC Shows Further Proof of FOIA Improvements
Dan Jenkins, UNREDACTED
Scientific Integrity
Scientific Integrity Reports From Federal Agencies Are In, but Info Is Scarce
Emily Yehle, Greenwire
Oil Spill
Coast Guard investigative report on Deepwater Horizon oil rig fire, sinking blasts rig owner Transocean
David Hammer, Times-Picayune
Scientists fret over BP funds for Gulf research
Cain Burdeau, The Associated Press
Defense
A Trillion Here, a Trillion There
Mark Thompson, Battleland
Planning vs. Reality in the Pentagon
Benjamin H. Friedman, The National Interest
Money in Politics
Much corporate political spending stays hidden
Noam N. Levey and Kim Geiger, Los Angeles Times
Private Security Contracting
Appeals court revives Blackwater shooting case
The Associated Press
Accountability
The Guantánamo Files: Judging Detainees’ Risk, Often With Flawed Evidence
Scott Shane and Benjamin Weiser, The New York Times
Wikileaks
President Obama speaks on Manning and the rule of law
Glenn Greenwald, Salon
Health and Human Services
Pediatricians seek better regulation of toxins
Liz Szabo, USA TODAY
Ethics
Ensign Resigns, But Details of Ethics Probe May Yet Emerge
Eric Lipton, The New York Times
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