Russia plant destroys chemical weapons for WWIII

The United States has contributed more than $1 billion to the construction of the plant. At the launching ceremony, the retired U.S. Senator, Richard Lugar, recalled that nine years ago a Russian major showed him how an 85mm chemical weapon shell could fit inside a briefcase.

Richard Lugar is a current U.S. Senator, not a retired U.S. Senator.

N.D.G.

Right. We did a correction, but for some reason it didn’t show up online, and eventually we had to delete the story from our system. We’re investigating: GBU Editor

Senator Richard Lugar, photo by REUTERS/Larry Downing

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Your practice of publishing unflattering photos of Dick Cheney to try and make him look angry and unappealing is a bogus, phony, manipulative, lying practice.

Shame on you. You aren’t journalists. You are propagandists and sellouts. Cheney is right on Gitmo, and 90 members of Congress agree with him.

Hank

Since our story said “An unsmiling Cheney delivered his shots without any significant inflection…”  it wasn’t exactly appropriate to dig out a photo of Cheney smiling. But here’s one for  you now: GBU Editor

REUTERS photo by Jason Reed

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Pelosi in public dispute with CIA over interrogation

WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - The top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday got into a public dispute with the CIA over what she knew about harsh interrogation techniques in 2002 in the latest twist in a Washington political firestorm.

I logged into your news site to find information concerning Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and the CIA controversy.

It is not every day that an elected member of our Congress calls the entire deparment of the Central Intelligence Agency liars. You don’t even have it covered as a subject… Anywhere. Are you serious? Do you not consider it newsworthy?

I have always thought of you as a balanced organization, but if you are not writing about it because you were TOLD not to….

Mr. Y.

It’s interesting that you would rather think we were “told” not to write about this, instead of the far more obvious explanation that we simply we not the first ones with the story.

We beat our competition with a lot of breaking news, but it would be unsportsmanlike to do it with every story. Indeed, our first version moved online within minutes of your query, and we updated it several times that day with fresh information: GBU Editor

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, leaves 10 Downing Street after meeting with Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in London May 12, 2009. REUTERS/Stephen Hird

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Implications of Japan opposition leader quitting

Former party leader Katsuya Okada, often cited as a frontrunner, has in the past favoured a hike in the three percent sales tax to fund bulging social security costs, a move Ozawa had ruled out for now.

I’d like to report a factual error.  Your article mentions a ”hike in the three percent sales tax to fund bulging social security costs.”

In fact Japan’s sales tax is currently five percent.

C. A.

Yes. We corrected: GBU Editor

Japanese opposition leader Ichiro Ozawa attends a news conference at the headquarters of the Democratic Party of Japan in Tokyo, May 11, 2009. Japanese opposition leader Ozawa told his party on Monday he will resign to try to restore the party’s prospects in a looming election, after a fundraising scandal dampened its hopes for victory.  REUTERS/Issei Kato

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U.S., EU eye possible fix to long-standing beef war

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will hold off on new retaliatory duties for European products while the two countries work on a possible fix to a dispute over beef trade that dates back to the 1980s, the U.S. Trade Representative’s office said on Thursday.

The European Union is NOT a country.

Ian F.

No, it isn’t. We corrected: GBU Editor

A European Union flag waves in front of the monument of Parthenon on Acropolis hill in Athens March 5, 2009. REUTERS/John Kolesidis

White House names Treasury nominees, needs more

The nominees announced on Sunday were:

– Lawyer David S. Cohen, for the position of assistant Treasury secretary, terrorist financing.

We don’t create the titles, we just report them. I agree this one looks a little strange, but it is correct.

The office’s role is to use Treasury’s authority in policy, enforcement and regulation to intercept and sever lines of financial support to international terrorists, narcotics traffickers, people engaged in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or engaged in any other activities that threaten U.S. national security: GBU Editor

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner delivers testimony before the House Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington March 5, 2009. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Obama orders 60-day cybersecurity review

WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday ordered an immediate 60-day review of federal cyber security efforts and named Melissa Hathaway, a top U.S. intelligence official, to oversee the effort, according to a White House statement.

Hathaway, who served as a top cyber security adviser to Mitch McConnell, the former director of national intelligence, will conduct the review for the White House National Security and Homeland Security Councils.

MITCH McConnell is Senate Minority Leader; MIKE McConnell is the former director of national intelligence.

D.C.B.

Yes, we corrected that: GBU Editor

U.S. National Intelligence Director John Mike McConnell listens to a question at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on current and future worldwide threats to the national security of the U.S. on Capitol Hill in Washington February 27, 2007. REUTERS/Jason Reed

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U.S. House passes DTV delay, ensuring passage

WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to delay the nationwide switch to digital television signals by about four months, the final step that virtually ensures final passage.

All other news agencies I’m reading say that this vote did NOT pass. Reuters is reporting that it DID pass.

Jon S.

I’m So Confused, now

J.H.

This was not our finest  hour, and a number of readers noticed. We were wrong about the passage, and we corrected the error: GBU Editor

Attendees look up at a display of Panasonic plasma televisions in a 2005 photo. REUTERS/Mike Blake

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