The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Professor Loch Johnson is one of two people who have served on both the Church Committee and the Aspin-Brown Commission. The other is Britt Snider, Esquire. Today he examines the lack of integrity on the Hill, or totthless, inattentive oversight. He does not address two factors that we comment on below the fold: 1. There …
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Hot Topics AA: 2 officers on UN mission held in Jordan, freed UNDP, NA shun … 08/27/09 AA: Russia admits mystery ship may have had suspect cargo 08/26/09 AE: UAE prosecutor claims American man on trial had ties to Al-Qaeda 08/24/09 AF: Group: US is monitoring journalists in Afghanistan 08/26/09 IQ: Intelligence Report: Iran Financing …
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By Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad and James Lamont in New Delhi Half of the planned assistance pledged by the US to Pakistan is likely to be wastefully spent on administrative costs, Islamabad’s most senior finance official has said. Phi Beta Iota: This is really about AID not letting Pakistan steal most of the money, as …
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Managing Oversight By Shane Harris August 26, 2009 Congressional oversight of intelligence is broken. That was the dismal conclusion of a 2006 report by the Center for American Progress, as well as the bipartisan 9/11 commission, both of which scoured the histories of congressional watchdogging — real and imagined — and concluded that the system …
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Six senators representing 3 percent of the population are running things because the White House wants it that way By Robert Reich Aug. 23, 2009 | On Thursday, the so-called Gang of Six – three Republicans and three Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee – met by conference call and, according to Max Baucus, D-Mont., …
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The Foreclosure Wave” — Now a Tsunami of Sorts Over the past two days, the popular foreclosure reporting firms released their monthly numbers and the takeaway was that the foreclosure crisis is getting worse. Indeed, the foreclosure crisis is worsening, but July’s actual foreclosure numbers do not pose much additional risk to the housing market …
Some say security fears are counterproductive By Bryan Bender WASHINGTON – Melting ice caps. Drought. Spreading disease. US defense planners view global climate change as a national security threat because it could create millions of new refugees and intensify conflicts over resources. . . . . . . . A new debate is unfolding over …
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