The Wake-Up Call

The ‘08 Race
One of Mitt Romney’s top fundraisers is being targeted by 133 plaintiffs alleging child abuse. Robert Lichfield, co-chairman of Romney’s finance committee in Utah, owned or operated residential boarding schools for troubled teenagers where students were “subjected to physical abuse, emotional abuse and sexual abuse.”

War on Terror
Did Osama Bin Laden charter a flight for the Saudi royal family out of the U.S. after 9/11? According to FBI documents obtained by Judicial Watch, a 727 “chartered either by the Saudi Arabian royal family or Osama Bin Laden” left Los Angeles and made four stops enroute to Paris on September 19, 2001.

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Scandal Sheet
The eldest brother of indicted Congressman William “Dollar Bill” Jefferson reportedly gave more than $100,000 in bribes to the former president of the Orleans Parish School Board in Louisiana in exchange for a multimillion-dollar math curriculum contract.

International
These 16 companies, including Deutsche Bank, Nokia, Siemens AG, Air France-KLM and Credit Suisse, may be violating the U.S. ban on doing business with Sudan.

Beltway Blotter
The Pentagon mishandles undefinitized contracts, which authorize contractors to begin work before reaching final terms, which leads to delays and cost overruns, according to a Government Accountability Office report.

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