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Entries from March 30th, 2010

Public Law Update

March 30th, 2010 · Public Law Update

H.R. 4938 / Public Law 111-150
To permit the use of previously appropriated funds to extend the Small Business Loan Guarantee Program, and for other purposes.
(Mar. 26, 2010; 124 Stat. 1026; 1 page)

S. 3186 / Public Law 111-151
Satellite Television Extension Act of 2010
(Mar. 26, 2010; 124 Stat. 1027; 2 pages)

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Public Law Update

March 30th, 2010 · Public Law Update

H.R. 3433 / Public Law 111-149

To amend the North American Wetlands Conservation Act to establish requirements regarding payment of the non-Federal share of the costs of wetlands conservation projects in Canada that are funded under that Act, and for other purposes.
(Mar. 25, 2010; 124 Stat. 1025; 1 page)

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Homeland Security IG in conflict with agencies on corruption probes

March 30th, 2010 · Corruption, Deception, Government Control, Homeland Security, Immigration, National Security, Non-Transparency, Obama Nominees, Terrorism from Within

By Andrew Becker – Special to The Washington Post
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Offices charged with ferreting out corruption among U.S. border and immigration employees are engaged in a turf battle that has delayed some investigations and threatens to undermine a host of enforcement actions, records and interviews show.

The conflict pits the inspector general’s office in the Department of Homeland Security against the agency’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) division and the FBI.

The turf battle came to a head about a week before a failed Christmas Day terrorist attack aboard an airliner,when Assistant Inspector General Thomas M. Frost ordered the top internal affairs official at CBP to drop any investigations underway outside the inspector general’s supervision.

In a Dec. 16 memo, Frost ordered James Tomsheck, the CBP commissioner for internal affairs, “to cease criminal investigations of any matter involving a DHS program or employee.” Frost also ordered CBP to stop participating in task forces or sharing information with other agencies unless coordinated through the inspector general’s office.

Some investigators think the order contradicts calls by the Homeland Security Department, Congress and the White House demanding increased agency cooperation. But an IG official said it was meant to improve internal-affairs inquiries.

Frost declined to comment, but his deputy, James Gaughran, said having too many investigating agencies risks intelligence leaks that can jeopardize investigators’ safety.

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Anti-U.S. views rise in Indonesia – rumored birthplace of Obama*

March 30th, 2010 · Foreign Policy

* Reference: The Fraud Of Barry Soetoro (a.k.a. Barack Hussein Obama); From Barry to Barack

Some in Indonesia praise, seek to replicate China’s fight against United States

ByAndrew Higgins Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, March 29, 2010

Amid cries of “God is Great,” the former chief of staff of the Indonesian army joined hard-line Muslim activists in a Jakarta ballroom last week to denounce the United States — and praise China as a model of how to stand up to Washington.

“We should do what China has done; America must follow our rules,” declared retired Gen. Tyasno Sudarto. Veiled women and bearded men, seated separately to avoid mingling of the sexes, shouted praise for Allah and jabbed their fists in the air. Another speaker hailed China for defying Washington’s “neo-liberal” economic creed.

The boisterous event, organized by an Islamic organization called Hizb ut-Tahrir, brought together two groups of Indonesians that don’t usually mix — fervent champions of an Islamic state and zealous secular nationalists. What united them was a shared fury at Washington and the hope that Beijing can put America in its place.

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Washington Post poll finds split on health-care law remains deep

March 30th, 2010 · Corruption, Deception, Democrats, Ethics, Federal Spending, Government Control, Healthcare, Non-Transparency, Obama's Scheme, Selling Out the US, Tax Dollars, Terrorism from Within, Treason

By Jon Cohen and Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 28, 2010

Americans overwhelmingly see the new health-care law as a major shift in the direction of the country, but they remain as deeply divided today over the changes as they were throughout the long congressional debate, according to a Washington Post poll.

In the days since President Obama signed the farthest-reaching piece of social welfare legislation in four decades, overall public opinion has changed little, with continuing broad public skepticism about the effects of the new law and more than a quarter of Americans seeing neither side as making a good-faith effort to cooperate on the issue.

Overall, 46 percent of those polled said they support the changes in the new law; 50 percent oppose them. That is virtually identical to the pre-vote split on the proposals and similar to the divide that has existed since last summer, when the country became sharply polarized over the president’s most ambitious domestic initiative.

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