After bin Laden, militants closer to Pakistan nukes

By Malik Siraj Akbar

FAS study yields concern over security around Pakistan nuclear weapons

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"… ar installations:A raid by 10 militants in October 2009 that left the Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, Pakistan’s equivalent of the Pentagon, under …"

FACT CHECK: New TV ad uses out-of-context quotes from U.S. military leaders

By FactCheck.Org and Eugene Kiely

Cheney ad

BARR battle: Obama administration to make more corporate jet data public despite flak

By Corbin Hiar

The Obama administration's plan to make even more data available on corporate jet flights is drawing heat from some strange bedfellows

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"… ent and the public.”Not surprisingly, the change is opposed by NBAA, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association and the Chamber of Commerce. Also objec …"

"… st the planned restriction. Six other Democratic members of the Senate’s General Aviation Caucus signed onto the letter, along with Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va …"

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Stolen state assets: World Bank report details daunting obstacles to recovery

By Corbin Hiar

A recent report says nations may have difficulty recovering assets stolen by autocratic regimes

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"… y confiscated. The example sounds similar to the case of the late dictator General Sani Abacha, whose fortune was seized by the Swiss at the behest of the Ni …"

FACT CHECK: Debt default 'danger' revisited

By FactCheck.Org

Debt ceiling raised at last possible minute under Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush

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"… e U.S. also flirted with default under President Clinton. In what the then-General Accounting Office called the "1995-1996 debt ceiling crisis," the Treasury …"

Commentary: Political mugging in America

By Charles Lewis

Anatomy of an "independent" smear campaign

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"… ates then overshadowed by Dean—Kerry, Rep. Richard Gephardt, and retired General Wesley Clark—all piled on. Labor unions that had publicly endorsed Gepha …"

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Politician 527s

By Alex Knott and Agustín Armendariz

Committees tied to lawmakers adjust to new regulations

To Panama and Back

By Kevin Bogardus

Contractor implicated in Cunningham bribery scandal sponsored 2000 trip for aide

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"… year's defense appropriations bill for several contractors, including General Atomics.On its Web site, NorthPoint describes its key asset as "our staff …"

Ethics Committee members, staff among the well-traveled

By Robert Brodsky

House legislators mulling rules and their aides took about $1 million in trips

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"… r a week in the summer of 2004 with his wife, Mary, at the expense of General Atomics. The San Diego-based defense contractor spent nearly $20,000 on th …"

"… to study issue of military importance." (The Center reported earlier that General Atomics spent roughly $660,000 on privately sponsored travel during the st …"

Winning contractors

U.S. contractors reap the windfalls of post-war reconstruction

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"… essional sources said they hoped such a full picture would emerge from the General Accounting Office, which has begun investigating the postwar contracting p …"

"… uniformed services and the State Department, as well as an analysis of the General Services Administration database of contracts from 1990 through fiscal yea …"

"… anned from receiving federal contracts.Seeking oversightIn April 2003, the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, announced it would l …"

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