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This is a guy who joined the Oregon National Guard in 2003, having found little else that engaged him--including his full-time job as a grain inspector. His grandfather served in the Air Force, and two of his uncles were Navy men. (His dad left home when he was young.) Because of his dyslexia, Braddock had trouble in school. But he thought to himself, Where else can you shoot a fully automatic weapon--legally--and get paid for it? A lengthy conversation ensues about guns (he owns an M1A and wants an AR-10 for hunting) and ends with...
...Health Administration (MSHA), which regulates mining operations. House Democrats are asking whether MSHA oversight has been not only weaker but also more secretive under the Bush Administration. Sago was cited for 208 alleged safety violations in 2005, Alma No. 1 for 95. In the past, the MSHA made its inspectors' full notes public, but since 2004, it has released only briefer citations. Critics say the inspectors' notes provide more information on conditions in dangerous mines. Representative Henry Waxman, top Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, has sent a letter to Labor Secretary Elaine Chao--whose department oversees the MSHA...
...March 2004 report from the Commerce Department’s Office of Inspector General recommended measures “to prevent countries and entities of concern from acquiring sensitive U.S. technology...
...already yielded the indictment of former Bush Administration official David Safavian on five counts of lying about his dealings with Abramoff while he was a senior official at the General Services Administration, the procurement agency for the Federal Government. Sources at the Interior Department tell TIME that its inspector general, Earl E. Devaney, has been conducting a wide-ranging investigation into Abramoff's dealings with the Cabinet agency?which oversees many of the Indian-related issues Abramoff built most of his career around. In particular, the agency is looking into ties between Abramoff and former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven...
...leadership has been. The President did not deliver an Oval Office address after the first historic Iraqi general election. Nor, for that matter, did the President deliver an Oval Office address following the symbolically significant two-thousandth American casualty in Iraq. When his opponents seized coalition chief weapons inspector Charles Duelfer’s final report as conclusive evidence that the justification for the war had been a farce, the President did not speak up to set the record straight. When Cindy Sheehan haunted the gates of his Crawford ranch and precipitated a flood of anti-war sentiment, the President...