Jeremy Scahill | Posted April 6, 2008 | Politics
For the first time since 1968, the Pentagon has charged a civilian contractor under military law. But the individual in question is not one of the Blackwater "shooters" alleged to have gunned down seventeen Iraqi civilians in Baghdad's Nisour Square last September, nor is it the Blackwater contractor accused...
Dina Rasor | Posted April 5, 2008 | Politics
The co-author of my book, Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War, has an interesting take on the DOD relying on contractors to report their own fraud. Robert Bauman is a former DCIS (Defense Criminal Investigative Service) investigator and is a Certified Fraud Examiner. Here is...
Bill Maher | Posted March 21, 2008 | Politics
In the past 24 hours, Dick Cheney has been in Baghdad, calling the Iraq War a "successful endeavor." John McCain's there too, and actually uttered those four magic words, "the surge is working," which only differs from Cheney's analysis in the scary possibility that McCain might actually believe it. Then...
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | February 12, 2008
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Andrea Batista Schlesinger | Posted December 29, 2007 | Politics
From The Drum Major Institute's Year In Review (read our full round-up of the year in politics and policy online here)
1. Selling Out Consumer Safety
As headlines about the recall of millions of children's toys coated with highly toxic lead paint dominated the newspapers this summer, many...
Washington Post | Steve Fainaru | December 23, 2007 11:47 PM
USA Today | Matt Kelley | December 14, 2007 09:52 AM
Joel Barkin | Posted December 13, 2007 | Politics
When it comes to the problem of privatization, we don't even know the half of it.
With all the attention currently focused on the perils of privatization at the federal level in the wake of the Blackwater debacle and the war profiteering sprees by Halliburton, Bechtel, and the like, scant...
Dina Rasor | Posted December 12, 2007 | Politics
Right now, Iraq's parliament is considering removing immunity from U.S. security contractors or possibly all U.S. contractor personnel. Some contractor employees have told the Los Angeles Times that they would stay and work anyway. Want to bet our troops lives on it? After the Iraqi police throw the first...
New York Times | SOLOMON MOORE | December 11, 2007 01:45 PM
Rebecca Hagler | Posted December 10, 2007 | Politics
I am a 32-year-old Army reservist stationed at Fort Bragg N.C, working for two- and three-star generals. I received orders to deploy to Iraq in September 2006, my first deployment to a combat zone. Even though I was a single mother, I greatly believe in the importance of serving my...
ABC's The Blotter | BRIAN ROSS, MADDY SAUER & JUSTIN ROOD | December 10, 2007 11:08 AM
Dan Agin | Posted December 5, 2007 | Politics
So far, the Republican Grand Old Party Iraq War has apparently cost the American people $475 billion -- in addition to 3800 or so dead, maybe 10,000 seriously wounded, many of them with missing limbs or brain injuries.
Bush the Younger originally went to war to topple Saddam Hussein...
AP | Richard Lardner | November 26, 2007 08:28 PM
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Rep. Louise Slaughter | Posted November 7, 2007 | Politics
Two weeks ago, I learned of the indictment of David H. Brooks, the founder and former CEO of Point Blank Solutions, Inc., and its COO Sandra Hatfield for insider trading, fraud, obstruction of justice, and tax evasion to the tune of nearly $200 million dollars.
On Tuesday night's "Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert had fun with...
From the AP: Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a...
*** UPDATED BELOW *** President Bush has said repeatedly that he would not insert himself into the...
As the odds get longer and longer, the obvious question is: Why doesn't Hillary Clinton gracefully concede...
It's a pretty well known fact that most women - attractive women -...
Utterly insane goings-on tonight on...
NEW UPDATE BELOW As violence in Iraq continues -- clashes today left 11 dead and 19 injured -- President...
Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two...
Tonight, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his...
The Democratic Party has finally decided who's going to break it to Hillary that it's time...
George W. Bush is unworthy of the presidency. He is a disgrace to himself,...
Associated Press | April 25, 2008 04:35 PM