The News Sieve

- The Bush administration’s cyber security chief earned $577,602 last year under an agreement with his other employer, Carnegie Mellon University. And that school was awarded $19 million in contracts by Donald “Andy” Purdy’s division at the Department of Homeland Security.

- Yet more evidence that White House officials have been bragging about their efforts to track financial transactions since shortly after 9/11. (Defense Tech via TPM Muckraker)

- Michael Oxley (R-OH), the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, gets a shout-out from his fans over at Merrill Lynch. They’re cheering him on at tonight’s Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game for Charity. (Political Money Line)

- Don’t get too close to that new nature preserve in Hawaii created by President Bush. Whales swimming past the area could be harmed by the U.S. Navy’s use of high-intensity sonar during naval exercises taking place next week. (Environmental News Service)

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