WTF Is It Now?!?

Defense’s Whitewater hire
Michael Isikoff reports in Newsweek:

The Bush misadministration has quietly installed a surprising figure in a high-level Pentagon post: L. Jean Lewis, the former federal fraud investigator who kicked up major controversy in the ’90s over her allegations about the Clintons’ Whitewater dealings (In a private letter on her computer, she once called Bill Clinton a “lying bastard.”) .

Lewis has been given a $118,000-a-year job as chief of staff in the traditionally nonpartisan Defense Department’s inspector general office. With 1,240 employees and a budget of $160 million, this office is the largest of its kind in the government. It investigates fraud and audits Pentagon contracts, including the billions of dollars being awarded in Iraq to companies like Halliburton and Bechtel.

Ha ha ha ha ha! Good one!




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Your bank can blacklist you, thanks to the PATRIOT Act.

In the name of homeland security, financial institutions can close accounts and cancel credit cards with little explanation. Complaints are slowly mounting. - - link.