Harken Energy Corporation internal documents

July 19, 2002 — In his July 8, 2002, press conference, President George W. Bush told reporters "to look back on the directors' minutes" for

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"… s conference, President George W. Bush told reporters "to look back on the directors' minutes" for details of his knowledge of and involvement in the financia …"

"… s and Exchange Commission investigation in the early 1990s.Bush, who was a director of Harken during the period in question and was himself investigated for i …"

"… conference, the White House told reporters that it did not have the Harken directors’ minutes, and would not ask Harken Energy to release them to the public …"

"… ing. Faulkner refers to the newly formed special committee of the board of directors, which Bush chaired. “The Special Committee noted above should be appoi …"

Homeland Security’s billion-dollar bet on better communications

By Sarah Laskow

Interoperability money aids Motorola and other contractors, but are first responders better off?

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"… e new technology that was meant to connect them. As Col. G. Jerry Russell, director of the Idaho State Police, put it, “Technology without coordination resu …"

"… nce,” says Bruce Baughman, a former FEMA official who also served as the director of the Alabama Emergency Management Association.Chasing the moneyAs big mo …"

"… fining positions that did not exist a few years ago. Essid, the office’s director, says that 70 percent of the requests coming to OEC’s technical assistan …"

Homeland Security marked by waste, lack of oversight

By G.W. Schulz

Records show that communities across California had difficulty managing millions in anti-terrorism grants handed out by Congress after Sept.

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"… t always clear on what we’re supposed to do,” said Tony Richno, deputy director of the Modoc County Office of Emergency Services. “It’s very difficult …"

"… e accepted the money and knew what we were getting into.”Brendan Murphy, director of grants management for the California Emergency Management Agency, said …"

"… gs and conferences across the state to help guide grant recipients. Grants director Murphy told California Watch that requiring the state to collect every rec …"

"… such things as having funds left over. The emergency management office’s director, John Fernandes, said the county is responsible for purchases made by doze …"

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Secrets in the sky: A tale of two air marshals

By Nick Schwellenbach

The elements are all there for another thrilling episode of the TV program “24.” The backdrop: A U.S. agency of armed government agents who

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"… preventing future potential whistleblowers, they say.Thomas D. Quinn, the director of the Federal Air Marshal Service while MacLean and Rine were air marshal …"

"… consistent penalties for analogous misconduct,” Tom Devine, legislative director at the Government Accountability Project, a whistleblower advocacy group, …"

Interoperability: A priority for Homeland Security?

By Sarah Laskow

Top officials say yes; budgets and staffing tell a different story

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"… and Communications, or OIC, in the department’s Science & Technology directorate; SAFECOM was folded in. But by March 2006, the office had filled only f …"

"… e the OIC that Ridge established, the OEC was initially short-handed: when director Chris Essid joined the team in December 2007, he was the office’s fourth …"

Crafting a transportation bill

By Matthew Lewis

A troubling process, a shortage of cash and plenty of lobbyists

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"… House Transportation Committee, and Robert Hurley, former Republican staff director of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, both lobby on behalf …"

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The road gang

By Matthew Lewis

Roadbuilding lobby wary as livability advocates gain momentum

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"… have the best system in the world for moving people,” says Greg Stuart, director of the Broward County, Florida, metropolitan planning organization. …"

"… capacity for everyone. “Those of us who build roads or drive,” AASHTO director John Horsley pointedly told Trottenberg, “don’t think we’re chopped …"

"… rnment treated bicycles the same as cars.South Florida Bike Coalition director Kathryn Moore said she was confused by the uproar. “We’re not saying t …"

Developers in the driver's seat on transportation

By Matthew Lewis

Unfocused transport policy leaves real estate industry eager to give Congress directions

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"… artists colony, and spa. Empire Resorts Inc., of which Cappelli is also a director and major shareholder, would oversee horse racing and video gaming operati …"

"… s.“We’re all special interests,” notes Brenna Walraven, the managing director of property development for California-based USAA Real Estate, a diverse d …"

"… ors lobbyist listed on the Concord account previously was campaign finance director to three sitting Democratic senators. Though Schumer publicly went on reco …"

"… g from environmentalists to the National Association of Realtors. Campaign director James Corless, for one, says the engagement from real estate agents is som …"

"Beneficial use" of Coal Ash in question as EPA mulls regulation

By Kristen Lombardi

Nearly every day over the last 32 months, members of a citizens group in Giles County, Va., have paid a visit to a seven-acre stretch of lan

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"… d Spencer bristles at the idea that Cumberland Park amounts to a dump. The director of the Giles County Partnership for Excellence — the foundation that own …"

Outsourcing Big Brother

By Adam Mayle and Alex Knott

WASHINGTON, December 17, 2002 — The Total Information Awareness System, the controversial Pentagon research program that aims to gather and

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"… n of the affair. On January 14, 2002, he returned to the government as the director of the Information Awareness Office.TIA draws heavily on the private secto …"

"… via Syntek through 2001 before returning to the Defense Department as the director of the Information Awareness Office (IAO).According to financial disclosur …"

"… alary of DARPA director Tony Tether.One month after he joined the board of directors of Saffron Technology in September 2000, the company announced it had rec …"

"… ect after September the 11th and volunteered it to DARPA. Tony Tether, the director of DARPA, came over with John and briefed it to me, and I thought it was a …"

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