The Daily MuckInternal reports from the Defense Department show that the most successful cyber attack on the American military was perpetrated in June… by the People’s Liberation Army. Where is Matthew Broderick when you need him? (Financial Times)
Neil Volz’s prosecutors recommended house arrest for the former chief of staff for Bob Ney, who has been so busy talking to federal investigators it’s a wonder he has had time to eat. Given that Jack Abramoff, Michael Scanlon, Mark Zachares and a host of other aides are all still talking, it sounds as though an interesting investigation or two might be on the horizon. (The Hill)
Secrecy in government is growing nearly across the board. That’s the consensus of sixty-seven organizations that push for government transparency, compiled in a recent report by OpenTheGovernment.org. (The Boston Globe)
The case of the missing White House emails continues to deepen. A recent article by Bloomberg News points out that a daily audit was taken of the email system, which undercuts the idea that the loss of nearly 5 million emails went entirely unnoticed. Meanwhile, the administration is in no hurry to tell Congress the name of the company that was hired to assist with the email archival system. Rep. Waxman (R-CA) has given a deadline of September 10th. (CREW, ABC’s The Blotter)
The Washington Post ran an article criticizing presidential candidates for not paying enough attention to the financial history of campaign “bundlers” who raise and donate huge amounts of fundraising cash. Case in point: Norman Hsu turned himself in over to the police after it came to light last week that this superstar Democratic fundraiser was on the lam for an arrest warrant after her orchestrated a Ponzi scheme in the early nineties. (Washington Post, ABC’s The Blotter)
The ACLU has released over 10,000 pages of documents that describe a disturbing trend: American soldiers have repeatedly been implicated in cases involving the deaths and torturing of Iraqi civilians where soldiers falsely believe that they were acting within the limits of the law. (NY Times)
