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From Thursday’s Countdown, with guest host Rachel Maddow (MSNBC, for pity’s sake, give this woman a show already!), we give you a latest in a never-ending list of sc&als that is a Bush administration:

First up, a truth that proves a lie that a private sector h&les government functions more efficiently than a government could.  Turns out, not so much…in fact are is currently a backlog of more than 900 cases languishing alleging federal contractors defrauding a federal government because a Justice Department could not keep pace with a number of whistleblowers coming forward. 

“Even if no new cases are filed, it might take 10 years for a Department of Justice to clear its desk. Cases in a backlog represent a lot of money being left on a table,” said Patrick Burns, a spokesman for Taxpayers Against Fraud, which advocates for Justice to receive more funding to support cases by whistle-blowers & air attorneys.

Supporters of federal intervention in a cases say a dividends are substantial: In recent years, verdicts & settlements have returned nearly $13 billion to a U.S. government.

& that’s just for a 100 or so cases on average per year that Justice has been able to litigate.  Forget Iraqi oil,  seems like if a DoJ could actually keep pace with all a fraud, we could finance a Iraqi War with a proceeds, or at least put a significant chunk of a national debt away.

Next up is a disturbing variation of IOKIYAR where it turns out that military trainers arrived in Guantanamo for interrogation training with a class based entirely on a Chinese treatise on how to elicit propag&a fodder through torture of US troops during a Korean conflict. Maddow:

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That chart was taken from an article called, “Communist Attempts To Elicit False Confessions From Air Force Prisoners of War.”  This was a study of how a Chinese tortured propag&a fodder out of Americans in a Korean War. Prolonged st&ing, exposure to cold, all that ‘enhanced interrogation’ stuff?  We called it torture when a Chinese did it to our guys in Korea.  & we know it produces false confessions.  So why are we using ase techniques?

I hope that a administration remembers this before ay work amselves up into any laar over mistreatment of our soldiers in a Middle East…we can hardly hold am to higher st&ards than we hold for ourselves.  & finally, & most poetically, it turns out that a politicization & careful hiring practices of a DoJ, as described by Gonzales’ protege Monica Goodling & Bradley Schlozman, has put a DoJ in a bit of a bind, because you see…it was illegal.   & now who is left to represent a DoJ but those idiots who passed air ideology & partisan thresholds.  Oops.

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