Archive for August 17th, 2006
Where’s That Money Going!
This week an open source journalism project was lanched to investigate congressional earmarks–line-items inserted into a bill to direct funds to a specific project or recipient without any public hearing or review. There are currently 1,867 secret spending earmarks worth more than $500 million in the Labor-Health and Human Services appropriation bill now before Congress. [...]
Watada won’t go!
WireTap Magazine posted a piece today on Lt. Ehren Watada, 28, who is facing indictment and imprisonment for refusing to deploy to Iraq. He faces a pretrial hearing this week.
Watada is the first military officer to face charges for opposing the war and the government seems to be pursuing his prosecution to deter further objection [...]
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