Medicare Analyst Threatened by White House
From the Washington Times
Exerpt: A U.S. Medicare cost analyst says the White House threatened his job if he revealed the real cost of prescription drug benefits President Bush wanted.
Richard Foster, a Department of Health and Human Services official who has been Medicare's chief actuary for nine years, said the top Medicare administrator, and perhaps White House officials, were withholding information on what changes to the program would cost, the Washington Post reported Saturday...
US Revealed to be Funding Venezuelan Opposition
From The Independent (UK)
Excerpt: Washington has been channelling hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund the political opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez - including those who briefly overthrew the democratically elected leader in a coup two years ago. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that, in 2002, America paid more than a million dollars to those political groups in what it claims is an ongoing effort to build democracy and "strengthen political parties". Mr Chavez has seized on the information, telling Washington to "get its hands off Venezuela"...
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My Hell in Camp X-Ray
From the London Mirror
Excerpt: ... The father-of-three, from Manchester, told how he was assaulted with fists, feet and batons after refusing a mystery injection ... He said detainees were shackled for up to 15 hours at a time in hand and leg cuffs with metal links which cut into the skin ...
... Prisoners who had never seen an "unveiled" woman before would be forced to watch as the hookers touched their own naked bodies. The men would return distraught. One said an American girl had smeared menstrual blood across his face in an act of humiliation ...
Bush Avoided Attacking Terrorist Suspect
From NBC News
Excerpt: With Tuesday’s attacks, Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with ties to al-Qaida, is now blamed for more than 700 terrorist killings in Iraq. But NBC News has learned that long before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself — but never pulled the trigger. ...
...Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi’s operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam...
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