Let's hire more
contractors!
By
Christopher Lee
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 26, 2004; Page A25
Federal
civil servants
proved they could do their work better and more cheaply than private
contractors nearly 90 percent of the time in job competitions last
year, according to the Office of Management and Budget.
An OMB
report released yesterday found that such competitions, the cornerstone
of President Bush's "competitive sourcing" initiative, cost federal
agencies $88 million in fiscal 2003. But they are projected to bring
savings of $1.1 billion in reduced personnel costs and overhead during
the next five years, the report said.[...]
In 1996, Cogress passed a law making it illegal to commit crimes...
Memos
Reveal War Crimes Warnings
Could
Bush administration officials be prosecuted for 'war crimes' as a
result of new measures used in the war on terror? The White House's top
lawyer thought so
Investigative
Correspondent
Newsweek
Updated: 9:14
a.m. ET
May 19, 2004
May 17 - The
White House's top lawyer warned more than two
years ago that U.S. officials could be prosecuted for "war crimes" as a
result of new and unorthodox measures used by the Bush administration
in the war on terrorism, according to an internal White House memo and
interviews with participants in the debate over the issue.
The concern about possible future prosecution for war crimes—and that
it might even apply to Bush adminstration officials themselves—
is contained in a crucial portion of an internal January 25,
2002, memo by White House counsel Alberto Gonzales obtained by
NEWSWEEK. [...]
In
the memo, the White House lawyer focused on a little known
1996 law passed by Congress, known as the War Crimes Act, that banned
any Americans from committing war crimes—defined in part as "grave
breaches" of the Geneva Conventions. [...]
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