You have to wonder if Bush, Chertoff and Rice really understand which homeland they are suppose to secure. Obviously, putting the responsibility of digitally fingerprinting all exiting foreign passengers falls on the airline and shipping industry; who will then hire contractors to to do the U.S. Government’s job? The Bush administration has hit the pinnacle [...]
The US State Department rejects wannabe immigrants who have gambled their lives to help Americans. The stories are endless and tragic. Americans promise the world to Iraqis and Afghanis, winning their allegiance and support. Often recruiting them for dangerous translator positions, sometimes making outrageous promises they know can’t be kept. Some [...]
TOP Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout will stand trial in Bangkok before extradition to the US is looked at, police said yesterday.
Bout has been charged in New York with conspiring to sell weapons worth millions of dollars to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
The US; which has given billions [...]
Limitations Faced By Federal Inspectors General
Inspectors general appointed to uncover waste, fraud and misconduct in federal agencies often lead underfunded and poorly staffed units and are not as independent as the public has been led to believe, according to a study released yesterday by the Project on Government Oversight (POGO).
… “The inescapable conclusion is that [...]
The firefighting system in the massive $736 million embassy complex in Baghdad has potential safety problems that top U.S. officials dismissed in their rush to declare construction largely completed by the end of last year, according to internal State Department documents, e-mails and interviews.
Some officials assert that in the push to complete the long-delayed [...]
Immigration Contractor Trims Wages
Workers who help process millions of visa and citizenship applications for a federal immigration agency are getting pay reductions just as the agency is facing an enormous surge in those applications.
The workers whose wage rate will be cut are contract employees in document processing centers in St. Albans, Vt., and Laguna [...]
Pentagon Warns of Civilian Layoffs If Congress Delays War Funding
Democrats Are Firm on Link to Troop Withdrawals From Iraq
By Jonathan Weisman and Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post
The Defense Department warned yesterday that as many as 200,000 contractors and civilian employees will begin receiving layoff warnings by Christmas unless Congress acts on President [...]
Thousands perched on rooftops in Mexico floods
Flood waters pour through devastated Mexican city
Rains flood thousands of homes in Mexico
FOOD, WATER RUNNING OUT
Thousands of people perched on roofs in southern Mexico on Saturday, desperate to [...]
State Dept. Agents Say Jobs Were Threatened
Investigators in IG Office Were Told Not to Cooperate With Probe of Their Boss, House Panel Alleges By Glenn Kessler and Karen DeYoung Washington PostTwo career investigators in the office of State Department Inspector General Howard J. Krongard have charged that they were threatened with firing if they [...]
State Dept. Intercedes in Blackwater Probe
A House panel reveals a letter telling the firm not to disclose information about its Iraq operations without the administration’s OK.
WASHINGTON — The State Department has interceded in a congressional investigation of Blackwater USA , the private security firm accused of killing Iraqi civilians last week, ordering the company [...]
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