Countdown Supplemental
Posted: Friday, August 08, 2008 5:19 PM by Countdown
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Countdown Supplemental
Source documents for some recent Countdown stories:
Stabilizing and Rebuilding Iraq: Iraqi Revenues, Expenditures, and Surplus - This is just the summary, the significant bit you heard about on Countdown is:
As of December 31, 2007, the Iraqi government had accumulated financial deposits of $29.4 billion, held in the Development Fund for Iraq and central government deposits at the Central Bank of Iraq and Iraq's commercial banks. This balance is the result, in part, of an estimated cumulative budget surplus of about $29 billion from 2005 to 2007. For 2008, GAO estimates a budget surplus of between $38.2 billion to $50.3 billion.
The full (41 page) pdf is here.
KFC In Fallujah? Too Finger-Licking Good To Be TrueThe Smoking Gun has
the arrest report of the jerk who called 911 with complaints about his sandwich.
Keith noted on the show, "Under a 1991 amendment to statutes that in 1947 created the C.I.A. and that govern its actions, there is a passage that reads, 'No covert action may be conducted which is intended to influence United States political processes, public opinion, policies, or media.'" You can
find that amendment here (see item f).
U.S. Army hopes to keep native Arabic speakers - Incentives likely to include large payments to soldiers now working as translators. Completing the picture is this from
an earlier C.S. Monitor story:
Nearly 11,000 military personnel have been discharged under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, according to a Government Accountability Office report in 2005, including about 750 personnel in jobs critical to the war on terrorism, like translators.
Here's the official Web site of the
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally though more appropriate to the news is
The Buffalo Chip campground, host to the annual Miss Buffalo Chip competition.
Chuck Todd’s Latest Electoral Map: Obama 217, McCain 189
Transcript of Amerithrax Investigation Press Conference - And for those truly devoted to digging through the anthrax case,
here are the hundreds of pages of documents released by the DoJ in connection with the case.
FBI was told to blame Anthrax scare on Al Qaeda by White House officials - The portion highlighted by Keith:
After the Oct. 5, 2001, death from anthrax exposure of Sun photo editor Robert Stevens, Mueller was "beaten up" during President Bush's morning intelligence briefings for not producing proof the killer spores were the handiwork of terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden, according to a former aide.
"They really wanted to blame somebody in the Middle East," the retired senior FBI official told The News.
In case, for some reason, you thought Keith was making it up, yes, the Wall Street Journal really did publish an article about
whether Barack Obama is "too fit." An interesting note is the "correction and amplification" at the bottom. That's likely a response to
the "online story research" uncovered by bloggers.
From NASCAR.com:Tires are the Rodney Dangerfield of the automotive world. Even though they're the only component of the car that actually touches the pavement, tires "get no respect."
Apparently they're also the Rodney Dangerfield of the Republican world.
Here's the
Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University Survey of Low-Wage Workers wherein it is revealed that in spite of the media hype it is in fact John McCain who has a "working class whites problem."
