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...former Iraqi administrator Paul Bremer said the U.S. had not sent enough troops during the early days of the occupation to prevent the rampant looting that took place then as well as the sense of lawlessness that now rules portions of the country. Most explosive of all was weapons inspector Charles Duelfer's 918-page CIA report on Saddam's weapons, which concluded that while the Iraqi leader had wanted weapons of mass destruction, he destroyed his stockpiles after the 1991 Gulf War and had no programs or materials to make new ones anytime soon...
...ronery,” the dictator sings from atop his balcony, having just sent UN weapons inspector Hans Blix into a pool of sharks to be decapitated. “No one takes me seriously. When I rule the world maybe they’ll notice...
...agency's 2,500 scientists tend to toil in anonymity, despite their contribution to popular commercial culture. "I'm constantly amazed how few people know we exist," says Glenn. "When I told someone recently that I work for the USDA, she said, 'Oh, so you're a meat inspector...
...shouting, "Rubbish, rubbish!" in reply to her remarks and dismissed other interruptions, yelling, "I insist, I insist!" and continuing to speak. In 2002, after embassy staff members registered a slew of complaints about Blackwill's imperious manner, he was given a scathing review by the State Department's inspector general. Blackwill declined to comment on the report. He nevertheless brought the U.S. and India closer on trade and security than at any other point in history and helped prevent a war between India and Pakistan in the summer...
...there's more bad news for ICE on the horizon. According to a letter sent Tuesday to the DHS inspector general by Rep. Jim Turner, the top Democrat on the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, ICE is in danger of violating a federal law against overspending its budget - part of the problem stems from technology flaws with the agency's financial management system. Turner wrote that his staff's interviews with ICE employees had turned up claims such as funds being transferred on a daily basis to ICE from its parent DHS agency to avoid shortfalls; ICE pilots going...