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Friday, 14 March 2008 |
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Geraldine Ferraro interviewed by Ann Curry on NBC Nightly News March 12, 2008
"They [the Obama campaign] actually got in touch with the CEO of the firm that they thought i was still with and urged him to fire me."
Unbelievably Ann Curry did not follow up. |
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Thursday, 13 March 2008 |
Last year the White House Office of Management and Budget inserted a loophole in a budget rule that would exempt U.S. contractors, when overseas, from adhering to regulation that requires them to report any abuse, waste or fraud.
Representative Peter Welch from Vermont is troubled by the White House's refusal to close said loophole. In an interview with the Washington Post, Mr. Welch spoke of the message this sends to U.S. contractors.
"This sends the message that if you're going to do waste, fraud and abuse, don't do it at home, do it abroad," said Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), who has asked House oversight leaders to investigate. "This was slipped in at the last minute. . . . It's obviously something you can't justify in any way, and there's no answer to why you'd allow this to occur abroad any more than you'd allow it to occur domestically. There is a question as to how and why the change was made, and we don't know the answer." |
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Thursday, 13 March 2008 |
The Pew Research Center surveyed 1 003 adults between February 28 and March 2 to determine the degree to which Americans were generally aware of the political climate.
Researchers found that 72 percent of responds could not correctly identify the number of American casualties in Iraq, which represents a 24 percent increase from August 2007.
Scott Keeter, Pew Survey Research Director attributes the sharp decrease in awareness to the decrease in media coverage. From February 28 to March 2, one percent of news stories focused on the Iraq war while in August 2007 Iraq was the focus of 15 percent of news coverage.
Mr. Keeter is quoted in the Washington Post as saying
"We try not to make any causal statements about the relationship between the absence of news and what the public knows," Keeter said. "But there's certainly a correlation between the two. People are not seeing news about fatalities, and there isn't much in the news about the war, whether it be military action or even political discussion related to it." |
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