Showing posts with label CNN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CNN. Show all posts

13 November 2009

Between Need to Know, Kinda Funny and Downright Sad

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- More than one-third of all weapons the United States has procured for Afghanistan's government are missing, according to a government report released Thursday.

U.S.-issue M249 squad automatic weapons are shown at a camp in Kandahar in December.

The U.S. military failed to "maintain complete inventory records for an estimated 87,000 weapons -- or about 36 percent -- of the 242,000 weapons that the United States procured and shipped to Afghanistan from December 2004 through June 2008," a U.S. Government Accountability Office report states.

Read entire article here.

16 September 2008

Bush Lands in Texas; Residents Urged to Leave

This is a screen capture from CNN. com this morning:



A good friend of mine took this screen capture this morning. I would have posted it sooner, but I had to verify it was something he found and not something someone else forwarded.

This is the article it linked to here.
Thanks to Mark G. for this submission.

06 June 2007

Earmarks in Congress

What Accountability?

CNN reports on how Congress spends taxpayer money and how earmarks work: