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Report: Halliburton unit exploited rules
Oct 27 2006 9:56PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Halliburton subsidiary that provides food, shelter and other logistics to U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan exploited federal regulations to hide details on its contract performance, according to a report released Friday.
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Man's transfer to Iraq death row delayed
Oct 27 2006 5:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court said Friday that the military may not turn an American citizen over to Iraqi officials to face the death penalty until the Supreme Court can hear his case.
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Judge sets schedule on detainee lawsuits
Oct 27 2006 5:04PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge Friday set the stage for the next push by the Bush administration to get all the lawsuits by detainees at Guantanamo Bay thrown out of U.S. courts.
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Safavian seeks leniency in Abramoff case
Oct 27 2006 12:54PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Bush administration official David Safavian wept as he asked for leniency in his obstruction of justice case Friday, telling a judge that his lobbyist friend Jack Abramoff manipulated him and drew him into the scandal.
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IRS gives Katrina-hit areas extra time
Oct 27 2006 10:09AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The IRS will put off until after the new year enforcement action against people in Hurricane Katrina-hit areas who are late in paying their income taxes, IRS Commissioner Mark Everson said Friday.
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Witness interrogated in CIA leak case
Oct 27 2006 8:09AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald took on the first witness in the CIA leak case Thursday, dissecting an expert witness until she acknowledged errors and misstatements in her research.
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