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...latest, and perhaps the most egregious, IG abuse to come to light has been at the State Department, where IG Howard Krongard is alleged to have repeatedly thwarted investigations into contracting fraud in the $3.6 billion spending that State has overseen in Iraq and Afghanistan, including the new U.S. embassy, which is racked with problems. In the process, according to seven former and current staffers, he is alleged to have censored politically embarrassing reporting, which many argue has helped obscure the corrosive effect of widespread corruption in Iraq. "One consistent element in these allegations is that you believe your foremost...
Imagine a morning radio program hosted by Adam Nagourney, Katie Couric, and Howard Stern.Okay, it might be a bit unbelievable. But it is, in a sense, what radio station WNYC and content provider Public Radio International (PRI) are planning on doing with a new morning talk show program. The proposed show would be a joint venture between The New York Times, the BBC, WNYC, PRI, and WGBH. The show is meant to compete with NPR’s “Morning Edition,” which currently has a stranglehold on morning talk programming. According to a PRI press...
...Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson wouldn't discuss individual donors. But he shed light on the general procedure. He said the provenance of 15 contributions was initially questioned in an ongoing review by the campaign's "compliance team." Income was the criterion - dishwashers, waiters and cooks were flagged...
...effort" to root out problems with donors, but he declined to specify the efforts. Likewise, Edwards spokeswoman Colleen Murray said that "every reasonable precaution" is taken to ensure the legality of her campaign's donors. The campaign did not answer when asked to describe those precautions. With reporting by Howard Chua-Eoan
...must play very carefully. Come across as too angry and he'll turn voters off. Not angry enough and he remains in Obama's shadow. "There is a mini-primary going on there to become the alternative to Clinton," says Steve MacMahon, a top adviser to Howard Dean's presidential campaign in 2004 who is not affiliated with a campaign this cycle. "As long as there are six others it's very difficult for any one candidate to aggregate those looking for an alternative to Clinton...