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		<title>399.  The cockamamie FBI investigation of the Madrid train bombings and Brandon Mayfield</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/12/399-the-cockamamie-fbi-investigation-of-the-madrid-train-bombings-and-brandon-mayfield/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 11, 2004, a series of bombings took place in Madrid which killed 191 people and injured 2,000.  A fingerprint lifted from a bag of detonator caps was erroneously identified by the FBI as belonging to Brandon Mayfield, a 37 year old lawyer in Portland, Oregon.  Although Mayfield was living more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>377. Gonzales’ mishandling of national security document</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/377-gonzales%e2%80%99-mishandling-of-national-security-document/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/377-gonzales%e2%80%99-mishandling-of-national-security-document/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A September 2, 2008 report of the DOJ Inspector General motivated by an August 10, 2007 referral from the National Security Division headed by then Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein found that Alberto Gonzales had mishandled documents classified at the highest level of Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI).  Such materials are supposed to remain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>357. Pentagon has too few auditors for its weapons acquisition programs</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/357-pentagon-has-too-few-auditors-for-its-weapons-acquisition-programs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/357-pentagon-has-too-few-auditors-for-its-weapons-acquisition-programs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.endordil.com/?p=981</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A March 2008 report by the Pentagon&#8217;s Inspector General found that in fiscal year 2007 $152 billion (48%) of $316 billion in expenditures on weapons acquisitions had not received sufficient audit scrutiny.  It noted its auditors are overwhelmed.   In 1997 each Inspector General auditor oversaw $642 million in contracts and that had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>356. Pentagon aeronautics contractor supplies dubious products for aircraft</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/356-pentagon-aeronautics-contractor-supplies-dubious-products-for-aircraft/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/356-pentagon-aeronautics-contractor-supplies-dubious-products-for-aircraft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contractors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Criminality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.endordil.com/?p=979</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a May 22, 2008 Project on Government Oversight article, a September 2006 Army memo accused a major aeronautics composite material manufacturer Airtech International Inc from 1997 to 2005 of fraud in supplying products which did not conform to contract specifications, of routinely changing the composition of these products without informing customers, and of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>355. Department of Defense can not account for billions it spent in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/355-department-of-defense-can-not-account-for-billions-it-spent-in-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/355-department-of-defense-can-not-account-for-billions-it-spent-in-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.endordil.com/?p=977</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A May 22, 2008 Department of Defense Inspector General&#8217;s audit examined 183,486 commercial and miscellaneous payments totaling $10.7 billion from April 2001 to June 2006 (98.8% of these were paid out after January 2003) made from Army disbursement centers in Kuwait ($7.6 billion), Iraq ($3.1 billion), and Egypt ($21.1 million).  The audit took a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>349. Conflicts of interest in NASA’s moon project</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/349-conflicts-of-interest-in-nasa%e2%80%99s-moon-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/349-conflicts-of-interest-in-nasa%e2%80%99s-moon-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 28, 2008, the normally tame NASA Inspector General (see entry 149) issued a report on the Standing Review Board for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle Project which is building the craft to be used in a return to the moon.  It found that 6 of the 19 board members, including the Chair, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>344. The military propagandists</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/344-the-military-propagandists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/344-the-military-propagandists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prior to 9/11, Torie Clarke, a former public relations executive and then Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, began recruiting military &#8220;analysts&#8221; who provided commentary on the air and in print for the nation&#8217;s media.  These analysts were retired officers (generals, colonels, etc.) whose expertise was supposed to provide depth to the media&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>337. The FAA and the less than safe skies</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/337-the-faa-and-the-less-than-safe-skies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/337-the-faa-and-the-less-than-safe-skies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.endordil.com/?p=939</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A report of the Department of Transportation Inspector General of April 3, 2008 found that Southwest Airlines had not followed an FAA directive to periodically inspect the fuselages of Boeing 737s (after part of one on an Aloha Airlines 737 blew off in flight in 1988 killing one) and that FAA personnel were aware of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>335. Another one bites the dust</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/335-another-one-bites-the-dust/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/335-another-one-bites-the-dust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.endordil.com/?p=935</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 28, 2008, the resignation of Felipe Sixto, a special assistant to the President for intergovernmental affairs, was announced by the White House.  He had been promoted to the post on March 1, 2008 and had worked in the office since July 2007.  His job had been to liaise with state lawmakers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>326. Inspector Generals, a broken system</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/326-inspector-generals-a-broken-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/326-inspector-generals-a-broken-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inspector General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.endordil.com/?p=917</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On February 28, 2008, the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) issued a report on the Inspector Generals.  It found that 60% of IGs appointed under Bush had prior political experience but only 20% had previous experience in auditing.  This is the reverse of the situation under Clinton where 60% of IGs had experience [...]]]></description>
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