Today's topic: National Security (Just so you'll remember that the whole "Bush didn't know we secretly sold our ports to the terrorist-friendly UAE and oh, by the way, there are 21 of them in the deal not 6" business didn't come out of nowhere.)
$7 billion
Amount of Defense Department funds allocated for the war on terrorism for which Defense has, in the words of the General Accounting Office, "lost visibility."
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$9 billion
Amount of Iraqi reconstruction funds that the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) could not account for in 2005.
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$1 million
Total amount CPA official Robert J. Stein took in bribes and kickbacks, including real estate, cars, home improvement, and jewelry, not including the additional $2 million that Stein flat-out stole from the CPA., all while placed in a position of public trust after having served time in federal prison for fraud during the 1990s.
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$8.6 million
Amount in rigged no-work contracts that Stein and other CPA officials pushed through, in a scheme involving such quid-pro-quos as sexual favors and money laundering.
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$178 million
Amount the Bush administration had already spent on preparation for the Iraq war before Congress authorized any such spending.
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$2.4 million
Amount in bribes accepted from defense contractors by Republican former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham while on the House defense appropriations subcommittee, not including $700,000 laundered through a real estate deal.
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5 hours, 54 minutes
Interval between 6:00pm December 18, 2005 (when the $3.8 billion appropriation for improving government preparedness for pandemics such as avian flu was passed by the conference committee without language that would indemnify drug companies for any deaths caused by avian flu vaccines they produced) and 11:54pm the same evening, when the report was officially filed (including 40 new and unvoted-upon pages of text, added by the Republican leadership of the House and Senate, exempting the drug companies from liability, not only regarding avian flu vaccine but other drugs having no connection to avian flu, even in cases of gross negligence on the part of the companies).
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Amount of Defense Department funds allocated for the war on terrorism for which Defense has, in the words of the General Accounting Office, "lost visibility."
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$9 billion
Amount of Iraqi reconstruction funds that the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) could not account for in 2005.
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$1 million
Total amount CPA official Robert J. Stein took in bribes and kickbacks, including real estate, cars, home improvement, and jewelry, not including the additional $2 million that Stein flat-out stole from the CPA., all while placed in a position of public trust after having served time in federal prison for fraud during the 1990s.
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$8.6 million
Amount in rigged no-work contracts that Stein and other CPA officials pushed through, in a scheme involving such quid-pro-quos as sexual favors and money laundering.
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$178 million
Amount the Bush administration had already spent on preparation for the Iraq war before Congress authorized any such spending.
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$2.4 million
Amount in bribes accepted from defense contractors by Republican former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham while on the House defense appropriations subcommittee, not including $700,000 laundered through a real estate deal.
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5 hours, 54 minutes
Interval between 6:00pm December 18, 2005 (when the $3.8 billion appropriation for improving government preparedness for pandemics such as avian flu was passed by the conference committee without language that would indemnify drug companies for any deaths caused by avian flu vaccines they produced) and 11:54pm the same evening, when the report was officially filed (including 40 new and unvoted-upon pages of text, added by the Republican leadership of the House and Senate, exempting the drug companies from liability, not only regarding avian flu vaccine but other drugs having no connection to avian flu, even in cases of gross negligence on the part of the companies).
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Next up: The economy.
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