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• "Surging" Nowhere: September Report Shows Failing Strategy

  Published: August 29, 2007, 10:34 pm

  Tags: Gao, Bush, Iraq, Surge, Cap, Benchmarks

  Accountability Office, or GAO, are beginning to leak out. As is painfully obvious, despite minimal results on the military and security front, the political progress has been a disaster. To remind the reader, President Bush's escalation came with 18 benchmarks in which to measure progress. In July, the White House claimed, in error, that

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• Progress Unspun

  Published: August 30, 2007, 9:49 am

  Tags: Foreign Policy, Patraeus, War, Mouqtada Al Sadr, Progress Report, Gao, Iraq, Politics, Bamboozle, Bush, Policy Analysis, President, Military, Iraq War

  well. Drats! Thank God the GAO was able to come through in our moment of need. (/sarcasm) (more…)

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• No One Saw This Coming

  Published: September 4, 2007, 8:51 pm

  Tags: Gao, War, Neocon, Petraeus, Iraq Army, Republicans, Foreign Policy, Bush, Bamboozle, Military, Iraq, Iraq War

  It’s funny in a hysterical, oh god this whole thing is sad, kind of way to watch a ridiculously neoconservative cheerleader of a news source accuse the left (read: congress, which is now under Democratic control) of being too “black and white”. And just before the exasperation there begins to fade out, you get this near

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• The Season of Reports

  Published: September 6, 2007, 5:28 am

  Tags: Tony Snow, Geoff Morrell, George W Bush, David Petraeus, Ryan Crocker, Iraq, Gao Report, Jones Report

  thunder.  First was the GAO Report that said Iraq had met only 3 of the 18 required benchmarks, followed by the Jones Report, which described the Iraqi Army as unable to "meaningfully contribute," and the Iraqi Police forces and Interior Ministry as, "riddled with sectarianism and corruption."   So, how does the administration

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• Study reveals abuse at teen boot camps

  Published: October 10, 2007, 11:33 am

  Tags: Boot Camps, Gao, Parents, Safety, Teen Boot Camp, Teenagers, Teens, Wilderness Camps

  data from 2005, the GAO found 1,619 incidents of abuse in 33 states. In looking at teen deaths in these camps since 1990, they found half of them were due to dehydration or heat exhaustion. Of the programs where children have died, many are still operating today.Rep. George Miller, a Democrat from California, is pushing for

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• Gao: Hot Week for Youth Boot Camps!

  Published: October 12, 2007, 3:55 pm

  Tags: Gao, Youth Boot Camps

  Got bad kids? No problem. Send them into the desert to die. That’s right, youth boot camps are hot this week! First, Congressional investigators sunk some fang into the unregulated industry...

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• Gao: Hot Week for Youth Boot Camps!

  Published: October 12, 2007, 3:55 pm

  Tags: Gao, Youth Boot Camps

  Got bad kids? No problem. Send them into the desert to die. That’s right, youth boot camps are hot this week! First, Congressional investigators sunk some fang into the unregulated industry and investigated reports of abuse and neglect resulting in the death of ten kids in six states. The report took a peep into the notorious Utah outfit

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• China Brooks No Dissent Ahead of Party Congress

  Published: October 13, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: China, Brooks, Dissent, Ahead, Party, Congress, Beijing, Human Rights Watch, Gao Zhisheng, Hu Jintao, Li Heping, Lu Banglie, Yao Lifa, U S Congress

  BEIJING, Oct. 12 -- Li Heping's ordeal began when two men kidnapped him on a rainy afternoon about two weeks ago, he said. It ended seven hours later, when he was dumped in a Beijing suburb after a dozen assailants had spent the evening beating him and shocking him with a cattle prod.

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• GAO Report Cites Waste In Anthrax Vaccine Cache

  Published: October 23, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Gao, Report, Cites, Waste, Anthrax, Vaccine, Cache, Vaxgen Inc, Biothrax, U S Department Of Defense, California, Emergent Biosolutions Inc, Gaithersburg, Joseph Lieberman, Susan Collins, The Pentagon, Food Drug Administration, U S Department Of Health Human Services

  Federal health officials are potentially wasting a stockpile of anthrax vaccine worth more than $100 million, according to a government report to be released today.

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• Senator Graham's pea-soup-colored glasses

  Published: November 1, 2007, 10:51 am

  Tags: Gao, Iraq, Lindsey Graham, Reconciliation, Maliki, Politics

  Nearly two months ago South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham made the presumptuous projection that "[w]ithin the next weeks, not months, there will be a major breakthrough on the benchmarks regarding political reconciliation." Unfortunately Graham's prediction was incorrect.Fast-forward seven weeks to the recently released Government

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• Thousands of Medicaid Providers Fail to Pay Taxes, GAO Finds

  Published: November 14, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Thousands, Medicaid, Providers, Fail, Pay, Taxes, Gao, Finds, Internal Revenue Service, Carl Levin, Frederick W Schindler, Norm Coleman, Minnesota, Jeff Nelligan, Centers For Medicare Amp Medicaid Services, U S Government Accountability Office

  Health-care providers who fail to pay their federal taxes continue to receive millions of dollars of payments from Medicaid, the government health-care program for the poor, according to a report by congressional investigators.

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• Thousands of Medicaid Providers Fail to Pay Taxes, GAO Finds

  Published: November 14, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Thousands, Medicaid, Providers, Fail, Pay, Taxes, Gao, Finds, Internal Revenue Service, Carl Levin, Frederick W Schindler, Norm Coleman, Minnesota, Jeff Nelligan, Centers For Medicare Amp Medicaid Services, U S Government Accountability Office

  Health-care providers who fail to pay their federal taxes continue to receive millions of dollars of payments from Medicaid, the government health-care program for the poor, according to a report by congressional investigators.

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• Thousands of Medicaid Providers Fail to Pay Taxes, GAO Finds

  Published: November 14, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Thousands, Medicaid, Providers, Fail, Pay, Taxes, Gao, Finds, Internal Revenue Service, Carl Levin, Frederick W Schindler, Norm Coleman, Minnesota, Jeff Nelligan, Centers For Medicare Amp Medicaid Services, U S Government Accountability Office

  Health-care providers who fail to pay their federal taxes continue to receive millions of dollars of payments from Medicaid, the government health-care program for the poor, according to a report by congressional investigators.

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• 'State Security' Arrests in China Doubled in '06, Group Reports

  Published: November 29, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: State, Security, Arrests, China, Doubled, Group, Reports, John Kamm, United States, Georgia, Gao Zhisheng, Li Datong, Li Jie, Rebiya Kadeer, San Francisco, China Democracy Party, Dui Hua Foundation, Ukraine

  BEIJING, Nov. 28 -- The number of people arrested in China for "endangering state security" more than doubled last year, showing that the government is cracking down on the political crime of dissent despite pressure to improve its human rights record before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, a human rig...

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• GAO Blasts Department of Defense on Iraqi Police

  Published: December 3, 2007, 10:36 pm

  Tags: Petraeus Promenade , Gao, Hunzeker Kenneth, Iraq War, Incompetence, Petraeus David, Politicization Of The Military

  ago.[Keep reading...]The GAO goes on at length in their report, and I can't do it justice. I can't adequately parse all the polite doublespeak in a way that adequately expresses how outraged we should all be.A few things stand out. The GAO says:...the Administration's September 14, 2007, Benchmark Assessment Report stated that although some

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