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Pentagon Contractors Owe $7.7 Billion in Unpaid Taxes
Thomas D. Williams truthout April 30, 2007
A federal watchdog agency insists that its investigations clearly show the US government is facing serious long-term funding shortfalls, while federal contractors, doctors and medical suppliers, regularly receiving federal Medicare money, owe billions in unpaid taxes.
Editorial - For His Dunk, Tenet Deserves Slam
Ray McGovern Tom Paine.com April 30, 2007
George Tenet’s book shows that he remains, first and foremost, a politician—with no clue as to the proper role of intelligence work.
We Cannot Stay As An Occupying Force in the Middle East Sen. Chuck Hagel talks about his presidential ambitions and why he sided with Democrats on Iraq.
Myra MacPherson Salon Magazine April 30, 2007
Rice - World Thought Iraq Had WMD
CBS News April 30, 2007
"We all believed the intelligence was strong," Secretary of State Rice said. "It wasn't just a problem with intelligence in the United States , it was an intelligence problem worldwide. Services across the world thought that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction."
Ex-CIA Officials Call On Tenet to Give Back His Medals
Michael Hirsh Newsweek April 30, 2007
A group of ex-CIA officials calls on Tenet to give back his medal of freedom, branding him 'the Alberto Gonzales of the intelligence community.'
Risk of PTSD Rises Sharply for Longer and Repeat Iraq War Deployments
Kelly Kennedy Air Force Times April 30, 2007
A recently released survey of soldiers and Marines puts concrete numbers behind problems experts have worried about since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began.
Soldier's Grieving Wife Speaks
Grace Polanski Fox 21 News April 30, 2007
In an exclusive interview with FOX21's Grace Polanski, Renea Waltz said, "The military killed my husband." Renea's 40-year-old husband, Staff Sergeant Mark Waltz died in their home Monday morning. Waltz said, "Those people who did not help my husband, killed my husband." The grieving soldier's wife said her husband was diagnosed with PTSD and BTI [sic] too late, yet deployed to return to war in Iraq again even though he was sick.
March 10, 2003 VCS Letter to President Bush About Impending Iraq War
Veterans for Common Sense Veterans for Common Sense April 29, 2007
Due to frequent requests, here is our Veterans for Common Sense letter dated March 10, 2003, sent to President George W. Bush before he launched his pre-emptive and unilateral war against Iraq.
VA Resources for Virginia Tech Mass Murder
National Center for PTSD April 29, 2007
VA issued resource materials on the psychological impact of the Virginia Tech murders. This is an excellent set of government information for care providers, students, families, veterans, and reporters.
Many Soldiers Are Returning From Combat With Hearing problems When Robert Conley, 22, left his New Hampshire home in 2004 to join the Army, he never thought flying home for a visit would cause him physical pain, he said. But it did because of the damage to his ears he suffered as a result of his combat experience in Iraq. He is one of many soldiers suffering from noise-induced hearing loss, a condition specialists now consider an “epidemic” within the military.
Krystal Hicks Eagle-Tribune April 29, 2007
For Veterans in Rural Areas, Care Hard to Reach
Charles M. Sennott Boston Globe April 29, 2007
The VA is struggling and often failing to do right by the many veterans with serious combat injuries who need closely supervised care but live in remote areas, a Globe review has found. Realigned in the 1990s to concentrate specialized care in urban areas, the system now finds itself overwhelmed by the wounded from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- engagements that have, even more than other modern-day conflicts, been fought by soldiers from rural America.
For One Couple, Struggle to Find Better Care Led to Relocation
Charles M. Sennott Boston Globe April 29, 2007
The couple's journey together has taken them from the cornfields of rural North Carolina to the hill towns of Western Massachusetts, where Peter Mohan, 27, finally got the care he needed. His was a classic case of a veteran who found himself desperate for VA services, but living far from a VA healthcare center and feeling lost in the agency's bureaucratic thicket.
Reconstruction Fraud in Iraq: 7 out of 8 Projects Failed
James Glanz New York Times April 29, 2007
In a troubling sign for the American-financed rebuilding program in Iraq, inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that in a sampling of eight projects that the United States had declared successes, seven were no longer operating as designed because of plumbing and electrical failures, lack of proper maintenance, apparent looting and expensive equipment that lay idle.
1996: Presidential Panel Condemns Pentagon Review of Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses
Philip Shenon New York Times April 29, 2007
November 8, 1996 -- The committee, which includes several prominent doctors and scientists, concluded [in 1996] that there was 'overwhelming' evidence that chemical weapons were released when American troops blew up a massive Iraqi ammunition depot near the southern Iraqi village of Kamisiyah in March 1991, shortly after the war. Thousands of American soldiers were deployed in the vicinity of the blast.
GAO Finds Problems With VBA's VETSNET Project Progress Made in Long-Term Effort to Replace Benefits Payment System, but Challenges Persist
U.S. Government Accountability Office April 28, 2007
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