Fedlog: With friends like these...(federal blogs, good reading today)

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Fedlog: With friends like these...

By Tom Shoop
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Wednesday, Dec. 22

2:09 p.m. ET
With Friends Like These... Latest sign of trouble for Donald Rumsfeld: Newt Gingrich has come to his defense.


1:28 p.m. ET
Contractor Bailout. I get the sneaking feeling this is a leading indicator: The LA Times reports that Contrack International Inc. has become the first holder of a major Iraq reconstruction contract to bail out of the country, citing out-of-control security costs. The Pentagon was quick to treat the company like a bad boyfriend. "It's not a terrible loss," said Amy Burns, spokeswoman for DoD's Iraq Project and Contracting Office. "It actually may be good that we're both moving on."

Tuesday, Dec. 21

9:20 a.m. ET
Interrogation Impersonation. Here's an angle to watch in today's stories about the ACLU release of FBI e-mails describing interrogation techniques used on detainees at Guantanamo Bay:Military personnel apparently posed as FBI agents (who were evidently the "good cops" in the scenario) in an effort to wring more information out of prisoners. A Pentagon spokesman tells the AP that impersonating other federal agents is, ahem, not on the approved list of military interrogation techniques.

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