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Although he wouldn't directly comment about what role contractors played in the program, he pointed out that under the guidelines of the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Agency is allowed to use contractors for intelligence analysis and collection. The CIA has declined to comment on whether it brought the private security Blackwater, now known as Xe Services, into the secret program, much less what role the firm played. (What happens when private armies take to the front lines...
...Budget, never had a chance. While the costs in the document might have been controlled well enough to meet expense estimates, the rate at which the economy is coming unhinged always meant that the amount of money which was supposed to come in from taxes was always at risk. OMB now says tax receipts will drop a breathtaking 15% compared with last year. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
...Office of Management and Budget; Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; deputy director of the CIA; Deputy Secretary of the Defense Department. In doing so, he developed admiring mentors, among them Caspar Weinberger, his boss at HEW and the Defense Department, and George Shultz, his boss at OMB. Both men had Carlucci, 56, on their recommended list last week as a replacement for the departing John Poindexter...
...metaphorical, artistic approach the other shuns art in favor of blunt non-fiction. Both are thought-provoking and timely. The 9/11 Report in particular has broken ground by using comix to further popularize a critical document for the public good. Its success will doubtless result in a flurry of OMB and Federal Reserve adaptations. We look forward to them...
...when Republican Representative Sherwood Boehlert, chairman of the House Science Committee, met with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Josh Bolten to press for more money for scientific research, Boehlert found Bolten unexpectedly receptive. Later that day, four Cabinet Secretaries showed up for a meeting on scientific research held at the Commerce Department. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman surprised Boehlert by staying all day. Although the Congressman has been advocating increased scientific research for years, Boehlert says, "Now it was getting the visibility." Soon Bush himself was pushing the proposals through the OMB, which often rips such initiatives apart...