Investigator

Who We Are:

• American Oversight is a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog that advances truth, accountability, and democracy by enforcing the public’s right to government records.


• We use multiple tools, backed by aggressive litigation, to fight attacks on democratic institutions, threats to civil rights and liberties, abuses of power, and erosion of government transparency.
• We expose and disrupt these attacks – and the officials and networks behind them –by forcing the government to turn over records officials would rather keep secret.   Since our founding in 2017, American Oversight has worked on numerous issues of national importance.

Our team has:

• Secured a court order to preserve the records in the 2025 “Signalgate” scandal, and spurred a related investigation by the DOD inspector general that found Secretary Hegseth had put troops’ lives in danger and violated feder...

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