Saturday News Dump, hidden under JonBenet’s rotting little corpse. Have I got your attention now? Good, because you need to pay attention to this. Small headline in WaPo this morning:

Verdict Against Iraq Contractor Overturned

What is this? Our old pals Custer Battles, war profiteers of the stinkiest ilk, looters of uncounted millions of US dollars from the US (Republican) controlled “Coalition Provisional Authority”. You know why they are being given an oopsie on this theft? Because a judge has ruled that the Coalition Provisional Authority was not an agency of the US Government:

Although a jury found the company guilty, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III ruled on review that the firm could not be sued under the federal False Claims Act because of the ambiguous structure of the authority, which issued the contract. The judge also concluded that the way in which the company had been paid distanced it from the U.S. government.  Read more 

Go Paul:

CINCINNATI (AP) — A Cincinnati attorney has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of 26.5 million veterans whose personal information was on a stolen computer disk.

The suit asks the Department of Veterans Affairs to compensate the veterans and pay for credit monitoring.

Paul Hackett filed the suit yesterday in US District Court in nearby Covington, Kentucky.  Read more