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...level of command sanctioned specific methods of prisoner abuse. While the meetings referenced in the ABC report revolved around interrogation at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, according to the Vanity Fair piece, “[An] August 2006 report of the Pentagon’s inspector general concluded unequivocally that techniques from Guantánamo had indeed found their way to Iraq,” specifically to the Abu Ghraib prison. In fact, a month prior to the first abuses by Abu Ghraib’s “bad apples,” two of the chief...
...necessarily mean a better summer travel season. Airlines are under even greater cost pressure than they were last summer, when one in three flights suffered delays. And changing the culture of the FAA so it's less reliant on airline self-regulation, as the Department of Transportation's Inspector General recommended this week, will require significantly increased funding for inspectors - something that's unlikely to happen by Memorial Day. Kate Hanni, who became an outspoken activist for a still-pending passenger's bill of rights after being stuck for hours on a notorious American Airlines flight in December 2006, says...
...matter is being turned over to the department's inspector general for further investigation, though it is far from clear what power he has over employees who have already been fired. As of Thursday night, the department had not discussed the matter with Obama himself, but had notified members of his staff of the incidents, and were planning a fuller briefing on Friday. The incidents occurred on Jan. 9, Feb. 21 and March 14; the employees involved in the first two were fired, while the one involved in the most recent one has been disciplined, and an inquiry is continuing...
...warehousing of information on Americans by the National Security Agency, the interception of financial information by the CIA, the stripping of authority from a civilian intelligence oversight board by the White House, and the compilation of suspicious activity reports from banks by the Treasury Department. On Thursday, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine released a report documenting continuing misuse of Patriot Act powers by the FBI. And to judge from the reaction in the country, nobody cares...
...factory tour. (Diehards bring their owner's manual so Randall can autograph it.) "Mac is one of those companies like Harley-Davidson that is nostalgic and supports U.S. jobs," says Schwartz. "How could you leave something like that?" There is still some hand assembly, and a final inspector, Shirley, approves each product before shipping. "We are never the earliest developers of a technology," says Randall. "We wait for the dust to settle, and then the technology is mature enough...