TSA loses hard drive with personal info
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press
Last updated: 8:03 a.m., Saturday, May 5, 2007
WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration has lost a computer hard drive containing Social Security numbers, bank data and payroll information for about 100,000 employees.
Authorities realized Thursday the hard drive was missing from a controlled area at TSA […]
tired of the cheap suits…the forty-pound breast pockets… the bad complexions. But, mainly I was tired of the whining around the water cooler by guys who would just as soon fall asleep at their desks than empty a .38 into your gut.
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NRC staffers quietly become gun-toting cops
Typical cases involve falsified records, lost equipment, sleeping […]
most proudly welcomes to its SANDBAG Show Room, the prestidigitational styling of the world-class magic duo of RUDY & TORQUI…
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White House Looked Past Alarms on Kerik
Giuliani, Gonzales Pushed DHS Bid Forward
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By John Solomon and Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, April 8, 2007; Page A01
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When former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani urged President Bush to […]
assistant in charge of magician’s cabinets and boxes.
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Former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, right, with former police commissioner Bernard B. Kerik in November 2003.Photo Credit: By Shirley Bahadur — AP –CAMERAWORKS–The Washington Post
Ex-Partner Of Giuliani May Face Charges
Kerik Counts Said To Include Deception During Cabinet Bid
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Who would have thought this late 2004 photograph […]
Is it any surprise that Saddam Hussein had ordered all of his nuclear research to be hidden in bookmobiles?
Posted on Tue, Jan. 30, 2007
Terrorist attacks out of nuclear plants’ hands, NRC rules
Tribune staff and wire reports
The Tribune
Tribune staff and wire reports
WASHINGTON — Making nuclear power plants such as Diablo Canyon crash-proof to an airliner attack […]
“Illegal Immigration Hardliner Mitt Romney Hires Undocumented Workers To Tend His Lawn
The Boston Globe reports today that for the past decade, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) has employed a landscaping company that relies heavily on undocumented Guatemalan immigrants. The company, Community Lawn Service with a Heart, also tended to the lawn at Romney’s son’s house.”
When […]
Consultants find that the Homeland Security Department is having problems with contractors. Will wonders never cease?
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Please find the story at the Washington Post.
MSNBC.com
COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
August 14, 2006 –Transcript
OLBERMANN: The term we employ is the nexus of politics and terror. It does not imply that there is no terror, but it also does not deny that there is politics. And it refuses to assume that counterterror measures in this country are not being influenced by politics.
Please find […]
“Big Katrina Contractors Win More FEMA Work
By Griff Witte and Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, August 10, 2006; D01
The four giant construction firms that received controversial no-bid contracts to house Hurricane Katrina evacuees last September will be earning up to $250 million apiece to do similar work after future disasters, the Federal Emergency Management […]
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Judge dismisses lawsuit over phone records
MIKE ROBINSON
Associated Press
CHICAGO - Citing national security, a federal judge Tuesday threw out a lawsuit aimed at blocking AT&T Inc. from giving telephone records to the government for use in the war on terror.”
Please finf the entire story here.
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* Video: Air Marshals Say SDR Quota Puts Pressure To Label People As ‘Suspicious’
Marshals: Innocent People Placed On ‘Watch List’ To Meet Quota
Marshals Say They Must File One Surveillance Detection Report, Or SDR, Per Month
POSTED: 9:49 pm MDT July 21, 2006
UPDATED: 10:56 pm MDT July 21, 2006
DENVER — You could be on a secret government […]