Suggestion: the same names keep coming up year after year on the fraud, cost overruns, crime- committed-in-a-foreign-country news stories. I have trouble keeping things straight. How 'bout it TPM, why not a running top ten list of these slugs with a running total of incidents and amounts since, say, the last quarter or year-over-year. You've already got one annual award going, why not a Corporate Turkey Award every Thanksgiving?

Posted at April 15, 2008 4:51 PM in response to Today's Must Read

If she took that pill with the glowing green butterfly to overcome the sleep deprivation, could she still answer the phone at 3 am?

Posted at April 11, 2008 12:02 PM in response to Bill Clinton: Media Acted Like Hillary Was "Just Making Up All This Stuff" On Bosnia

On Monday, June 27, 2005, Bunnatine Greenhouse, a Senior Procurement Officer for the DOD testified before Congress about ongoing contract abuse in the department. She chose that course only after she had exhausted all internal avenues. She was dismissed as a semior procurment officer and religated to a desk-without-portfolio somewhere in the basement after a 20 year career. While much of her testimony centered on 2003 no-bid contracts to KBR, then a Haliburton subsidiary, which she believed were politically motivated, her comments went beyond that case.

The thought occurs regarding questions Waxman might want to ask Efraim Diveroli. "Who's your Daddy?"

Posted at March 27, 2008 4:57 PM in response to Waxman Scheds Hearing for Twenty-Something Arms Contractor

"When the OMB's Susan E. Dudley urged the EPA to consider the effects of cutting ozone further on "economic values and on personal comfort and well-being,"

Was she aware that painting watch dials with radium had few beneficial effects to public tongues? Or that asbestos in shingles and insolation had beneficial effects on public lungs or that Thalidamide had....but I digress.

Posted at March 14, 2008 11:59 AM in response to Today's Must Read