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Video of the Day: IBM Tax Breaks Criticized By Its Workers
About 30 people, most of them IBM employees, contract workers and union reps, showed up at a public hearing this morning at the Dutchess County Industrial Development Agency to condemn the company’s new tax deal with the county as “corporate welfare.”
“I think it’s a bad deal,” Joel Tyner, a county legislator for Rhinebeck and Clinton, [...]
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Between the Lines: McCain Adviser’s Link to Olmert Scandal
Unmentioned in the New York Times’s illuminating story about McCain adviser Rick Davis’s lobbying activity are the recent revelations about his onetime client, ImageSat.
Davis’s firm, Davis Manafort, received $120,000 to lobby for Imagesat, an Israeli company which sells satellite imagery, on both defense and domestic security issues in 2004 and 2005.
Imagesat has been in the [...]
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The Wake-Up Call
Scandal Sheet
Congressional bulldog Henry Waxman has become the White House’s biggest nightmare. Check out this timeline of Waxman’s various attempts to hold the administration’s feet to the fire.
A Louisiana legislator, State Senator Derrick Shepherd, said yesterday he is being investigated by the FBI because he wouldn’t provide agents information about possible wrongdoing by Rep. William [...]
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The Wake-Up Call
Scandal Sheet
- Karl Rove, Blackberry junkie: How did four years of emails go missing?
- Here’s the latest document dump from the Justice Department. Start digging!
- Talk about “shock and awe”! Wink, wink, nudge, nudge! Harlan K. Ullman, the Iraq war strategist who coined that phrase, was exposed as a customer of DC madame Deborah Jeane [...]
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The Afternoon Round-Up
Scandal Sheet
The Justice Department didn’t turn over all the relevant documents related to the fired US Attorneys… and the House Judiciary Committee wants them badly.
Corporate Culture
- Time Warner didn’t exactly punish executive Wayne Pace after last year’s revelations that he was Brazilian hooker Andrea Schwartz’s sugar daddy, showering her with money and jewelry. They’ve been rewarding [...]
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The Wake-Up Call
War on Terror
- Freed Iranian diplomat claims he was tortured by the CIA at a base near Baghdad airport.
- Contractors who commit crimes in Iraq or elsewhere are off the hook: They’re beyond the reach of law enforcement because the Pentagon hasn’t updated its regulations.
- Professor Walter F. Murphy, a Korean war hero, gets stopped [...]
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The Afternoon Round-Up
Spy vs. Spy
- A former FBI agent on private business in Iran went missing a few weeks ago.
- “Keeping the Peace Alive,” the recently declassified video made by the once-super-secret National Reconnaissance Office.
Bureaucratic Bungling
- Chemical weapons depot under criminal investigation: U.S. Justice Department convenes grand jury to probe reports of security and safety lapses at an [...]
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You Read It Here First…
Here are some predictions for January-February. (It’s one of the oldest tricks in journalism: Get the story out there first without having to actually do any reporting.)
- The leaker of Rudy Giuliani’s secret campaign plan is revealed to be a mole working for John Weaver, John McCain’s campaign strategist
- Defeated AG candidate Jeanine Pirro announces her divorce [...]
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Pataki’s Parting Gifts
Only hours before finishing his third and final term as governor, George Pataki just couldn’t help appointing some of his long-time friends and supporters to plum positions.
Top of the list is Louis Ciminelli, one of the biggest upstate developers, who was named to the Niagara River Greenway Commission, where he’ll be responsible for creating a [...]
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The News Sieve
- What a coincidence! Stephen Hayes, the Weekly Standard writer who’s been the biggest proponent of a connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda, just got tapped to pen the authorized biography of Vice President Dick Cheney. (Despite the fact that his analysis was critiqued by Pentagon intelligence officials, Hayes’ piece about the supposed link [...]
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