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Please find entire story in The New York Times.
Image: (Robert Blake as Baretta) via michaelmanning.tv (Governor Blago) via huffingtonpost.com;
W. pounds his chest three times while bellowing ‘I am the president,‘ the Constitution is relegated to comic book status, thieves steal copper from working communication and HVAC systems, the Middle Class falls into poverty as the rich become richer through greed and favorable government decisions and the executive branch play games with […]
Posted on Sat, Oct. 27, 2007
Lexington Herald-Leader
By John Cheves
McConnell marks funds for contractor
FIRM UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR BRIBERY
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MITCH IN THE HEADLIGHTS
Dennis Cook/ AP
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Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is pushing $25 million in earmarked federal funds for a British defense contractor that is under criminal investigation by […]
According to Illinois.com, there are 13,619 Chicago police officers.
Paul Green’s observation would allow only 14 officers to act in a non-professional manner.
I don’t think that’s possible.
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Chicago police again mired in scandal
By MIKE ROBINSON, Associated Press WriterSun Sep 30, 7:04 PM ET
Videotapes of angry officers savagely beating civilians and charges that a murder […]
should produce an awards show
in a lower level of a House parking garage
and have last year’s departed sleaze members
hand out this year’s trophies in manila envelopes.
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CREW RELEASES THIRD ANNUAL MOST CORRUPT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS REPORT
September 18, 2007
The 22 most corrupt members of Congress
* Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-NM)
* Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
* Sen. Lisa Murkowski […]
Conflict of interest in Gingrich ‘think tank.’
“Newt Gingrich has promoted public policy positions that closely track the financial interests of companies that underwrite a think tank he founded,” an AP investigation has found. The Center for Health Transformation, part of “an elaborate consulting and communications empire” Gingrich has built since leaving Congress, offers views on […]
BAE accused of secretly paying £1bn to Saudi prince
· Money for ‘marketing services’ on arms deal
· £30m payments a quarter
· Sanctioned by MoD
David Leigh and Rob Evans
Thursday June 7, 2007
Guardian
The arms company BAE secretly paid Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia more than £1bn in connection with Britain’s biggest ever weapons contract, it is alleged today.
A […]
Judge Halts Award Of Iraq Contract
By Alec Klein and Steve Fainaru
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, June 2, 2007; Page D01
A federal judge yesterday ordered the military to temporarily refrain from awarding the largest security contract in Iraq. The order followed an unusual series of events set off when a U.S. Army veteran filed a protest against […]
Come on, Tom. No one asked. Just don’t tell us how to live. Unless…???
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The New Yorker
Letter from Washington
Party Unfaithful
The Republican implosion.
by Jeffrey Goldberg June 4, 2007
Earlier this year, he published a memoir called “No Retreat, No Surrender” (his spokeswoman says that he was not stealing from Bruce Springsteen, and that the phrase has been used […]
SALON.com
George Tenet cashes in on Iraq
The former CIA chief is earning big money from corporations profiting off the war — a fact not mentioned in his combative new book or heard on his publicity blitz.
By Tim Shorrock
May. 07, 2007 | If you go by the book jacket of his new memoir, “At the Center of […]