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GAO: Bad Cooperation Hurts Terror Probes
Seeded on Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:32 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
The Justice, State and Homeland Security Departments have all made it clear they want to help other countries prevent terrorism. They're not nearly as clear about how they plan to do that.
It's His Nature: Rupert Murdoch and Dow Jones
Seeded on Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:34 AM EDT (Columbia Journalism Review)
Family members sensibly fear that he would misuse that paper's journalistic power. Murdoch's answer is that to damage the credibility of the Journal would be to destroy it. Why would he do such a thing?
FBI Frequently Broke Law and own Rules Spying on Americans
Seeded on Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:06 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in …
Court Rules Against Indefinite Detention of Residents by President
Seeded on Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:09 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
The Bush administration cannot legally detain a U.S. resident it suspects of being an al-Qaida sleeper agent without charging him, a divided federal appeals court ruled Monday.
CIA Plans Cutbacks on Contractors Due to Cost and Accountability
Seeded on Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:25 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
Acting under pressure from Congress, the CIA has decided to trim its contractor staffing by 10 percent. It is the agency's first effort since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to curb what critics have decried as the growing privatization of U.S.
Powell calls for closing Guantanamo Bay, moving detainees
Seeded on Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:36 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said today he favors immediately closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison and moving its detainees to U.S. facilities.
At U.S. military hospitals, 'everybody is overworked'
Seeded on Tue Jun 5, 2007 2:24 PM EDT (USA Today)
The Army's acting surgeon general says the situation here illustrates the challenge the service faces nationwide in keeping health care promises that were made to soldiers when they enlisted.
Plame was 'covert' agent at time of name leak
Seeded on Wed May 30, 2007 9:01 AM EDT (MSNBC)
An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame's employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, indicates that Plame was "covert" when her name became public in July 2003.
Economic Mobility: Is the American Dream Alive and Well?
Seeded on Fri May 25, 2007 3:35 PM EDT (EconomicMobility.Org)
For more than two centuries economic opportunity and the prospect of upward mobility have formed the bedrock upon which the American story has been anchored--inspiring people in distant lands to seek our shores and sustaining the unwaivering optimism of America at home.
Study: Tobacco Should Be Banned in Public Indoor Settings
Seeded on Thu May 24, 2007 1:18 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
State and local governments should ban smoking in malls, restaurants and virtually all other public indoor settings and the Food and Drug Administration should regulate the marketing, packaging and sale of tobacco products, the influential Institute of Medicine said in a report t …
Who Wins In Iraq?
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2007 10:30 AM EDT (ForeignPolicy.com)
Newspaper headlines consistently remind us of the failures coming out of Iraq. The number of U.S. soldiers who have lost their lives continues to climb. The deaths of Iraqi civilians far exceed what almost anyone expected.
Healthcare in America: US vs. Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand & U.K.
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2007 8:12 AM EDT (The Washington Monthly)
HEALTHCARE IN AMERICA....The Commonwealth Fund has released its latest comparison of healthcare performance among various countries, and you can read all about it here. However, since I know you're all busy people, I'll just cut to the chase: we suck.
Alberto Gonzales: Accepts Full Responsibilty for Mistakes But Doesnt Know Much of Anything
Seeded on Fri May 11, 2007 2:28 PM EDT (Slate)
Today's attorney general breezes into the chamber with the certain knowledge that having bottomed out in April, he has nothing left to prove.
A Sinking President: Resolute or Delusional?
Seeded on Tue May 8, 2007 12:11 PM EDT (US News & World Report)
Despite the many gathering storms, visitors to the West Wing are often struck by how serene the place is. It all flows from Bush's own peace of mind.
The Elephant in the Room: George W. Bush has the lowest presidential approval rating in a generation, and the leading Dems beat every major '08 Republican. Coincidence?
Seeded on Sat May 5, 2007 1:54 PM EDT (MSNBC)
It's hard to say which is worse news for Republicans: that George W. Bush now has the worst approval rating of an American president in a generation, or that he seems to be dragging every '08 Republican presidential candidate down with him.
Duke's B-school cheating scandal
Seeded on Fri May 4, 2007 12:21 PM EDT (Christian Science Monitor)
When so many MBA students cheat, are business schools really training honest leaders of corporations?
The U.S. Attorney, the G.O.P. Congressman and the Timely Job Offer
Seeded on Fri May 4, 2007 10:24 AM EDT (The New York Times)
There is yet another United States attorney whose abrupt departure from office is raising questions: Debra Wong Yang of Los Angeles. Ms.
Strained VA hands out five-figure bonuses
Seeded on Thu May 3, 2007 4:07 PM EDT (CNN)
Months after a politically embarrassing $1 billion shortfall that put veterans' health care in peril, Veterans Affairs officials involved in the foul-up got hefty bonuses ranging up to $33,000.
If AG Gonzales won't resign & Bush won't fire him, Should Congress Impeach Gonzales?
Thu May 3, 2007 12:04 PM EDT
Frank Bowman in his OP-ED in the NYT aserts that Gonzales can and should be impeached: He's Impeachable, You Know
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Justice Dept. Announces Inquiry Into Its Hiring
Seeded on Thu May 3, 2007 10:02 AM EDT (The New York Times)
The Justice Department has begun an internal investigation into whether a former senior adviser to Attorney General Alberto R.
DOJ & GOP Appear to have Used Pretext of Voter Fraud to try to Protect GOP Incumbents
Seeded on Thu May 3, 2007 8:57 AM EDT (McClatchy Newspapers )
Accusations about voter fraud seemed to fly from every direction in Missouri before last fall's elections. State and national Republicans leaders fretted that dead people might vote or that some live people might vote more than once.
Inspectors Find Rebuilt Projects Crumbling in Iraq
Seeded on Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:44 PM EDT (The New York Times)
In a troubling sign for the American-financed rebuilding program in Iraq, inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that in a sampling of eight projects that the United States had declared successes, seven were no longer operating as designed because of plumbing and el …
The Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch frauds
Seeded on Wed Apr 25, 2007 2:45 PM EDT (Salon.com)
It is difficult to watch these clips from yesterday's House hearings investigating the absolute, deliberate lies regarding Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch fed to the American public by the U.S.
Delays in Renzi Case Raise More Gonzales Questions
Seeded on Wed Apr 25, 2007 11:06 AM EDT (Wall Street Journal)
As midterm elections approached last November, federal investigators in Arizona faced unexpected obstacles in getting needed Justice Department approvals to advance a corruption investigation of Republican Rep. Rick Renzi, people close to the case said.
Warming Predicted to Take Severe Toll on U.S.
Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:01 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
Climate change will exact a major cost on North America's timber industry and could drive as much as 40 percent of its plant and animal species to extinction in a matter of decades, according to a new report from an international panel.
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