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…

Haven't really had a chance to look around this yet but My Spies tell me that you can find interesting stuff this way. On the surface it looks like a specialized form of their regular Google News, but one Spy says he found a whole subset of one agency that isn't listed on the said agency's website. Poke around and see what you can find:

Google US Government Search Read more…