The Wake-Up Call

Scandal Sheet
Every liberal’s wet dream: The Office of Special Counsel will investigate Karl Rove for his role in the U.S. Attorney firings and other political activities.

Iraq War
The action on the ground in living color. The Islamic state of Iraq posted this photo, claiming it was taken in Diyala, where nine paratroopers were killed yesterday in the worst attack on American ground forces in Iraq in more than a year.

War on Terror
Helpful tips for terrorists: You want to get inside an Australian nuclear facility? Just dress like an American. That’s what happened on an Aussie TV show, “The Chaser”. But if you dress like an Arab and videotape the Sydney Harbor Bridge and a reactor that produces medical isotopes, security will grab you within three minutes.

The ‘08 Race
Chris Dodd may be snapping up the hedge fund cash from favor-seeking financiers, but Mitt Romney is the king of the private equity cash. He took in $258,000 in the first quarter of 2007. Among his donors: Steve Schwarzman and Henry Kravis.

National Security
The FBI has made progress in hiring, training and retaining intelligence analysts but problems persists, according to this IG report. They didn’t meet their hiring goal for FY 2006 and the average time to hire an analyst increased from 19 weeks in FY 2004 to 31 weeks. And they’re still not using threat and risk-based criteria to determine the number of analysts needed.

Environment
Ecuador wants $350 million from the international community in return for not developing a major oil field in the Amazonian basin. Call it blackmail for leaving the rainforest intact.

Department of Cruel Irony
That great collaboration between the U.S. Holocaust Museum and Google Earth to pinpoint the precise location of each of the massacres in Darfur has educated plenty of people around the world - unless you happen to live in the Sudan. That’s because people in the Sudan are unable to download Google Earth, which is required to view the project, in accordance with U.S. export controls and economic sanctions regulations.

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1. Trouble » * * * * * Says:
   April 24th, 2007 at 11:57 am

   [...] 04/24/2007 11:16 AM The Wake-Up Call Scandal Sheet Every liberal’s wet dream : The Office of Special Counsel will investigate Karl Rove for his role in the U.S. Attorney firings and other political activities. [...]

2. France » Blog Archive » * * * * * Says:
   April 24th, 2007 at 11:57 am

   [...] 04/24/2007 11:16 AM The Wake-Up Call Scandal Sheet Every liberal’s wet dream : The Office of Special Counsel will investigate Karl Rove for his role in the U.S. Attorney firings and other political activities. [...]

3. Russia » THE WORLD DECISION Says:
   April 24th, 2007 at 11:58 am

   [...] 04/24/2007 11:16 AM The Wake-Up Call Scandal Sheet Every liberal’s wet dream : The Office of Special Counsel will investigate Karl Rove for his role in the U.S. Attorney firings and other political activities. [...]