By Matt Kelley, USA TODAY A newly formed consulting firm hired to account for more than $7.3 billion in Iraqi reconstruction money did not deliver a database that could help investigators track waste and fraud, a recent report found. The result: Two years after uncovering one major fraud case, auditors still haven’t determined whether there…
therawstory Michael Roston Published: Wednesday April 4, 2007 President George W. Bush circumvented Senate opposition today and recess appointed a controversial nominee as Ambassador to Belgium. Sam Fox, who donated thousands of dollars to the anti-John Kerry Swift Boat Veterans For Truth before the 2004 Presidential election, received the nod from the White House in…
By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, Newsweek When he wasn’t doing his day job as U.S. attorney in New Mexico, David Iglesias was a captain in the Navy Reserve, teaching foreign military officers about international terrorism. But Iglesias’s military service in support of what the Pentagon likes to call the Global War on Terror (GWOT)…
The legacy of Fallujah The western rhetoric of apathy must not blind us to our obligation to challenge atrocities Jonathan Holmes Wednesday April 4, 2007 The Guardian In the face of repeated independent verification, US forces have now acknowledged the use of chemical weapons, and yet there remains no sustained international outcry and no official…
