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President's Veep In Deep When It Comes to CIA Leak Case As new details continue to emerge from the Lewis "Scooter" Libby trail, it's now known that Vice President Cheney "personally orchestrated his office's 2003 efforts to rebut allegations that the administration used flawed intelligence to justify the war in Iraq and discredit a critic who Cheney believed was making him look foolish," according to the Washington Post. [Washington Post, 1/26/07] In her testimony, former Cheney spokeswoman Cathie Martin said she had a "clear memory" of telling Cheney and Libby that Ambassador Joe Wilson, a critic of the White House's...

The government awarded 70 percent of its contracts for Hurricane Katrina work without full competition, wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in the process, says a House study released Thursday by Democrats. The report, a comprehensive overview of government audits on Katrina contracting, found that out of $10.6 billion in contracts awarded after the storm last year, more than $7.4 billion were handed out with limited or no competitive bidding. In addition, 19 contracts worth $8.75 billion were found to have wasted taxpayer money at least in part, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the report....