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...disturbing revelation, NASA’s inspector general’s office discovered last month that the agency had been bilked, robbed and ripped off multiple times in the last year by contractors and employees. The amount of money involved has not been disclosed, but the individual examples of fraud show how serious the lapse of oversight has been. One NASA contract worker billed the Hubble Space Telescope Program for $27,000 of collect phone calls from prison inmates, according to The New York Times. In another shocking case, three students who worked at the Johnson Space Center in Houston...
Goodman and other watchdogs are worried because the industry and federal guidelines are only voluntary. "There's no penalty if you ignore them," says Ben St. John, spokesman for the inspector general of the Health and Human Services Department...
ROLE Manic actor Peter Sellers, who played Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther films...
...White House is certain that re-newed U.N. inspections won't end the threat of Saddam continuing to accumulate weapons of mass destruction and that only his demise will do the trick. Former U.N. inspectors tend to agree. In eight years of policing the country, they found and destroyed sizable quantities of his weapons of mass destruction, but not all of the ones he was known to have. Since inspections broke off in 1998, Saddam is widely believed to have retooled and restocked chemical and biological agents and brought his nuclear program back into high gear, while vastly improving...
...elevator is ready, but we are really at the mercy of the building inspector,” Brainard said...