Report Finds Little Progress On Iraq Goals GAO Draft at Odds With White House By Karen DeYoung and Thomas E. Ricks, Washington Post Iraq has failed to meet all but three of 18 congressionally mandated benchmarks for political and military progress, according to a draft of a Government Accountability Office report. The document questions whether…
RICHARD LARDNER, Associated Press The Army will examine as many as 18,000 contracts awarded over the past four years to support U.S. forces in Iraq to determine how many are tainted by waste, fraud and abuse, service officials said Wednesday. Overall, the contracts are worth close to $3 billion and represent every transaction made between…
By Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com How is it done? How do you screw the taxpayer for millions, get away with it and then ride off into the sunset with one middle finger extended, the other wrapped around a chilled martini? Ask Earnest O. Robbins — he knows all about being a successful contractor in Iraq. You…
Jason Rhyne, Raw Story The recently passed law which allows President Bush to continue wiretapping Americans’ telephone calls overseas may allow for domestic spying as well, according to a new report commissioned by Congress. A recently-acquired Congressional Research Service report of the controversial Protect America Act, which formally legalized communications surveillance where one party is…
