Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Life in the Bush era

Hesiod is really on a roll today.  He has two items about the theft of part of a biographer's file of FBI surveillance documents on John Kerry, here and here.

And lest we think police surveillance of antiwar groups is a thing of the past, he alerts us to this item (Hesiod calls posts like this one part of his "Bush Fedayeen Watch"): Police infiltrate peace rallies Muskegon [MI] Chronicle 03/29/04.

And he also links to this article, Questions raised about ethics of Iraq contract Seattle Times 03/28/04, which reports:

A Virginia company that got a $240 million federal contract to develop "a competitive private sector" in Iraq helped write the specifications for the work that knocked its competitors out of the running, a federal investigation has found.

A draft memo by the inspector general at the U.S. Agency for International Development blasts the agency for giving a competitive advantage to BearingPoint, a consulting company that's in court defending itself against allegations of other contracting irregularities and disclosures that its officials inaccurately stated its profits in 2003.

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