Bad Deeds for 6-22-2007

Cheney Attempted To Abolish Agency That Tried To Oversee Him – For four years, Vice President Dick Cheney has resisted routine oversight of his office’s handling of classified information, and when the National Archives unit that monitors classification in the executive branch objected, the vice president’s office suggested abolishing the oversight unit. Starting in 2003, the vice president’s office began refusing to supply the information requested by the unit. After repeatedly refusing to comply with a routine annual request from the archives for data on his staff’s classification of internal documents, the vice president’s office in 2004 blocked an on-site inspection of records that other agencies of the executive branch regularly go through to check whether documents were being properly labeled and safely stored.

US gives Iraqi Sunnis only eight days of training and at the end of it, they get to keep their gun and their uniform. That’s it? Eight days? It takes seven days of training to become a Starbucks barista.

Iraqi Political Refugee Facing Deportation To Iraq – Dallal Muhamed–an Iraqi woman who arrived in the US eight years ago for political asylum after being raped by Saddam’s henchmen is being deported because she failed to prove to the 9th Circuit Court that she would be tortured if repatriated to Iraq.

Bill O’Reilly Complains About NBC Covering Things That Don’t Matter, Like Afghanistan – Bill O’Reilly likes to complain that NBC gets all “jazzed” up over reporting Afghani children war casualties, Keith highlights all the Super Serious stuff BillO opts to cover instead of the most pressing issues this country faces — namely, Burt Reynolds’ illustrious career, the most recent Playboy centerfold and bears. Colbert would be very proud.

Missing Soldier’s Wife Faces Deportation – While the U.S. military searches for a soldier missing in Iraq, kidnapped by insurgents possibly allied with al Qaeda, his wife back home in Massachusetts may be deported by the U.S. government. Army Spec. Alex Jimenez, who has been missing since his unit was attacked by insurgents in Iraq on May 12, had petitioned for a green card for his wife, Yaderlin Hiraldo, whom he married in 2004. Their attorney, Matthew Kolken, said 23-year-old Hiraldo illegally entered the United States in 2001 to reunite with her husband, whom she had met in her native Dominican Republic and later married at his New York State Army base in 2004.

Romney Aide Impersonating a State Trooper – Jim Garrity, director of operations on Romney’s presidential campaign is being investigated for allegedly impersonating a trooper when he called a Wilmington company and threatened to ticket the driver of the company’s van for erratic driving.

Trent Lott Compares Illegal Immigrants To Goats: “One Of The Ways I Keep Goats In The Fence Is I Electrified Them” – Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) on the solution to illegal immigration:

If the answer is ‘build a fence’ I’ve got two goats on my place in Mississippi. There ain’t no fence big enough, high enough, strong enough, that you can keep those goats in that fence. Now people are at least as smart as goats. Maybe not as agile. Build a fence. We should have a virtual fence. Now one of the ways I keep those goats in the fence is I electrified them. Once they got popped a couple times they quit trying to jump it.

Regards,

Jim