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Latest tagged entries for 'INCOMPETENCE'
No One is Accountable in the Pentagon
Tuesday, 16 May 2006 9:26 P GMT-05
DOD does not conform to any accounting standards: Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities (BLSP).
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Coming home — disillusioned
Friday, 14 April 2006 8:58 A GMT-05
A Marine Corps captain who did two tours of duty in Iraq on his experiences and his disullisionment with the US policy.
Who's really locked up in Guantanamo?
Wednesday, 5 April 2006 10:45 A GMT-05
Tom Malinowski, Washington advocacy director of Human Rights Watch, on Guantanamo Bay prison.
Brzezinski calls for Iraq pull out
Saturday, 18 March 2006 6:46 P GMT-05
One of America's most respected elder national security statesmen called for a full pull-out from Iraq Thursday.
Bomb Parts Pass Checkpoints at 21 U.S. Airports
Friday, 17 March 2006 8:24 P GMT-05
Government investigators conducting undercover tests at 21 U.S. airports were able to get bomb materials through screening machines at all of them, ABC News has learned.
Judge: Moussaoui death penalty trial still on
Tuesday, 14 March 2006 4:16 P GMT-05
The trial of Zacarias Moussaoui will continue; some testimony to be excluded.
Secrecy grows more common with war on terror as excuse
Monday, 13 March 2006 9:36 P GMT-05
USA Today on the increased use of secrecy in the US under the guise of the war on terror.
Angry judge questions U.S. death case against Moussaoui
Monday, 13 March 2006 6:13 P GMT-05
A TSA lawyer's blunder may derail the Moussaoui trial.
This just in from the courtroom
Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:36 A GMT-05
Latest news from the Zacarias Moussaoui trial.
Katrina report calls for urgent changes
Thursday, 23 February 2006 2:09 P GMT-05
The White House Katrina report - no one is to blame, just poor coordination... Sounds like a rerun of the past-911 time.
Eyewitnesses peel back lies on war debate
Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:08 P GMT-05
Jay Bookman on the Administration's deceptions that led to the Iraq war.
THE PLIGHT OF NATIONAL SECURITY WHISTLEBLOWERS
Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:47 A GMT-05
Those uncovering illegal activities within the national security apparatus risk having their reputation and livelihood ruined.
"I confessed to escape Guantanamo torture"
Tuesday, 21 February 2006 3:38 A GMT-05
A UK student confesses to terror activities to escape torture, is released from Gitmo but still viewed as "security rist" by the UK authorities.
As others profit, Katrina survivors suffer
Tuesday, 11 October 2005 3:36 P GMT-05
Cronyism, corruption, incompetence and blind ideology threaten to add to the suffering of those who were abandoned in the first place.
FEMA takes many workers off 'cane duty
Sunday, 18 September 2005 11:00 A GMT-05
FEMA bureaucrats yesterday infuriated exhausted Hurricane Katrina responders and lawmakers with yet another blunder.
Federal Emergency Management Agency leaders ordered officials in the agency's Preparedness Division to stop all Katrina relief eff
The Forever Elsewhere Management Agency
Friday, 16 September 2005 4:49 P GMT-05
It was day 13 after Katrina struck, and no one was coordinating the relief effort in one of the poorest communities along the coast.
9/11 Panel Says U.S. Hasn't Enacted Crucial Reforms
Thursday, 15 September 2005 2:07 P GMT-05
Former members of the Kean commission slam the state of the US domestic preparedness.
The federal response to Katrina is a disaster in its own right
Wednesday, 14 September 2005 11:27 A GMT-05
Chertoff - deliberately or through sheer incompetence - delayed the federal response to Katrina by days, potentially causing unneeded casualties on a catastrophic scale.
New Orleans: the specter of military dictatorship
Saturday, 10 September 2005 11:47 A GMT-05
The first 11 days of the disaster have revealed two political truths about present-day America.
What stood in the way of rescue: some news just in...
Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:43 P GMT-05
There were plenty of people ready to help the victims of Katrina; if only they weren't held back...
Rescue effort in the Gulf: a little report on the bureaucratic quagmire it turns out to be
Tuesday, 6 September 2005 5:32 A GMT-05
Rescue effort: the effort slowed down by missing paperwork and officials not allowing the help to get to the victims.
Chertoff: Katrina scenario did not exist
Monday, 5 September 2005 2:08 P GMT-05
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff argued Saturday that government planners did not predict such a disaster ever could occur.
