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SLICC Deal for Pentagon Brass, Pimp My Ride -- Air Force Edition,
In June 2008, sources came to the Project on Government Oversight about the Air Force wasting taxpayer funds. They presented documents and e-mails that raised questions about two little-known programs to build "world-class" luxury aircraft accommodations for the military and senior civilian leadership. The accommodations -- called SLICC (Snior Leader In-transit Conference Capsule) and SLIP (Senior Leader In-transit Pallet) -- were justified as filling a "deficiency gap," but e-mails obtained by POGO showed that there was significant internal dissent within the Air Force over this extravagant waste of taxpayers' funds. Requirements documents obtained by POGO emphasize the need for "aesthetically pleasing" accommodations. E-mails obtained by POGO state that Air Force generals upgraded the leather, carpet, and wood choices, adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to the program cost. After the first FLIP was procured, General Robert McMahon expressed dissatisfaction with the color of the seat leather and type of wood used. He directed that the leather be reupholstered from brown to Air Force blue leather, and requested to replace the wood originally used with cherry. Internal Air Force e-mails make it clear that the Air Force leadership's overriding concern us SLICC's level of luxury. Contract documents obtained by POGO revealed that these accommodations do not provide any additional operational capabilities (e.g. communications advantages) beyond those currently existing.
Tags: government spending; Air Force; SLICC; SLIP; misconduct; overspending
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Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War
"Hubris is a narrative that tells the behind the scenes of story of events inside the White House, CIA, Pentagon, State Department and Congress as President Bush sold the country on the need to go to war against Iraq. It reveals how the Bush administration distorted, twisted, and embellished intelligence to present a thoroughly false picture that Iraq was a storehouse of weapons of mass destruction, was reconstituting its nuclear program, and had relationships with al Qaeda terrorists- despite significant doubts and dissents from numerous intelligence analysts and government experts." It also delves into the role of the news organizations in selling the idea and how White House officials undermined Iraq critics.
Tags: Iraq War; al Qaeda; George W. Bush; Bush; weapons of mass destruction; CIA; Pentagon; White House; Congress; Saddam Hussein; Karl Rove; Dick Cheney;
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Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back
A sister and brother reporting team examine the history of deception and use of propaganda by the U.S. Government and "major corporate media outlets". "We also investigate violations of civil liberties, and international law, and interview people intimately involved in or affected by torture, the Iraq War, and the crackdown on political dissent. We conclude by interviewing creative resisters, both in the media, the military, the government and civil society."
Tags: www.democracynow.org; Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting; FAIR; Abu Ghraib; torture; CIA; President Geaorge W. Bush; New York Times; Washington Post; FEMA; dissent; propaganda; Eduardo Galeano; Cindy Crawford; Coleen Rowley; Arundhati Roy; Amira Hass; Mukhtar Mai; Robert Fisk; Allister Sparks; Alice Walker; Stephen Colbert; truthiness; Tony Lagouranis
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Short Circuit in the Wired City
Tacoma, Washington recently installed a new computer system. However it ended up costing more than was estimated. The investigation discovered that the managers were to blame. They misinformed the public about how well the system would work and its cost, as well as shutting out dissenters and ignoring best practices.
Tags: costs; city government; money; technology; management
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The Crackdown On Dissent
"Over the past year, the US government has intensified its crackdown on political dissidents opposing corporate globalization," the Nation reports. The question is whether police are being trained to violate the free speech rights of protestors. Some of their tactics include trumping-up charges, make lists of activists, political profiling, setting unconstitutional bail amounts and brutal treatment, the Nation reports.
Tags: corporate golbalization; International Monetary Fund; police brutality
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Giving workers the treatment: If you raise a stink, you get the shrink!
Downs reports about "an increasingly popular weapon against whistleblowers: the psychiatric reprisal ... Across the country, companies have seized upon concerns about workplace violence to quash dissent. Hundreds of large corporations have hired psychiatrists and psychologists to advise them on how to weed out 'threatening' employees ... But by drawing the definition of 'threatening' as broadly as possible, they are giving themselves a new club to bang over workers." For example: Ford Motor Company electrician was barred from the factory and sent to a psychiatrist after he complained that he could not do his job because many of his bosses were taking equipment out of the plant to work on their homes or personal businesses.
Tags: workplace safety; U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration; American Postal Workers Union
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Special Report: Airline Safety
The story covers: suppression of a dissenting report detailing safety flaws within the U.S. airline industry submitted to the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security, the FAA's refusal to mandate that children under two be buckled in seats despite reports of deaths and turbulence, dramatic underreporting of turbulence-related incidents/accidents aboard U.S. airlines, dangerous flaws in cabin and cockpit safety/monitoring that the FAA is not correcting.
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Plattsburgh (N.Y.) Press-Republican uncovers mismanagement and abuse of employees by a Lake Placid scientific research facility, including management cover-up of employee rape and questionable firing of dissenters, October - December 1990.
Tags: Ny Mele
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No title (id: 5480)
KRON-TV (San Francisco) airs two special reports on the upsurge of intelligence gathering by the federal government on U.S. citizens; relying heavily on the FOIA, reports document how the FBI, State Department and White House use information from private right-wing organizations, as well as their own agents, to gather information on peace and religious groups and harass the left wing in order to suppress dissent, Feb. 18 and Nov. 10, 1987.
Tags: Tape
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No title (id: 816)
APF Reporter examines the suppression of dissent in the State Department and the declining use of the department's "dissent channel" because of fear of retribution, Winter 1985.
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