Under Bush-Obama, looky what's gone missing:

Missing weaponry: Thousands of US weapons astray in Afghanistan: auditors 12 Feb 2009 Thousands of US weapons, including assault rifles and grenade launchers, may be in Taliban or Al-Qaeda al-CIAduh hands in Afghanistan because of lax controls, congressional auditors warned on Thursday. The Pentagon has failed to track an estimated 87,000 weapons given to Afghan security forces, one-third of the 242,000 shipped by the US government between December 2004 and June 2008, the Government Accountability Office said. A 46-page report by the GAO, the non-partisan investigative arm of Congress, said there had been no monitoring of a further 135,000 weapons donated by NATO allies to the poorly paid and corruption-rife Afghan army and police.

Missing Los Alamos computers: 69 computers missing from nuclear weapons lab --80 computers lost or stolen in 2008, 11 recovered. 12 Feb 2009 The Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory is missing 69 computers, but no classified information has been lost, spokesman Kevin Roark said. The watchdog group Project on Government Oversight released a memo dated Feb. 3 from the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration that said 67 computers were missing.

Missing vacationing Blackberry: LANL Blackberry is Vacationing in 'Sensitive Foreign Country' 29 Jan 2009 According to a Los Alamos internal email, it has not been a good week for Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). There was a break-in at the Santa Fe home of a LANL scientist, from which three LANL computers were stolen. And in an unrelated incident, a LANL Blackberry was lost in a "sensitive foreign country."

Missing $366,000: Navy Supply Chief Charged in Theft 12 Feb 2009 A Navy supply chief was charged this week in federal court with stealing more than $366,000 worth of computers, televisions and other items using a government-issued credit card. Chief Petty Officer Antonio L. Allen, 36, of Chesapeake, was arrested Tuesday and released on $5,000 bond pending arraignment in U.S. District Court Wednesday. He was charged with conspiracy, theft of public property and making false statements.

Missing Constitution: Female FBI officer 'tortured Mumbai terror attacks suspect with sex' 11 Feb 2009 A female FBI officer tortured a suspect in the Mumbai terrorist attacks by performing a sex act on him during interrogation, it has been claimed. Fahim Ansari is accused of helping to plan the attacks in which 173 people were killed in November. His lawyer, Ejaz Naqvi, has filed legal papers with Mumbai magistrate's court, claiming the "white woman" removed all his clothes and showed him pornographic films. In the papers, he claims that three foreigners, including the woman, sexually abused him, causing him "severe itching and wounds" on his body, including his genitals.

Missing trials: Solicitor general nominee says 'enemy combatants' can be held without trial 11 Feb 2009 Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan, President Obama's choice to represent his administration before the Supreme Court, told a key Republican senator Tuesday that she believed the government could hold suspected terrorists without trial as war prisoners. She echoed comments by Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. during his confirmation hearing last month. Both agreed that the United States was at war with 'Al Qaeda' and suggested the law of war allows the government to capture and hold alleged terrorists without charges. If confirmed as U.S. solicitor general, Kagan will defend the administration's legal policy in the courts.

Missing civil liberties: Top Obama Aides Embrace Bush's War on Terror Rhetoric and Enemy Combatant Policy By Jonathan Turley 11 Feb 2009 This has been a uniquely bad week for civil libertarians. The Obama Administration appears to be rushing to dispel any notions that Obama will fight for civil liberties or war crimes investigations. After Eric Holder allegedly assured a senator that there would be no war crimes investigation and seemed to defend Bush policies, Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan, Obama’s Solicitor General nominee, reportedly told a Republican senator that the Administration agreed with Bush that we are "at war" and therefore can hold enemy combatants indefinitely. In the meantime, Obama himself seemed to tie himself in knots when asked about investigating war crimes and leading democrats are again pushing for a symbolic "truth commission."

Is Obama following Bush's lead on official secrecy? --The Obama administration either has delayed action on requests for access to government records or refused to disclose them in three early, high-profile tests of the pledge. 11 Feb 2009 This week, Justice Department lawyers announced that they'd continue to assert the state secrets argument made by the Bush regime in a lawsuit alleging that five men were tortured abroad in U.S.-run prisons. In a separate case, the Obama Justice Department has agreed with the Bush regime -- at least initially -- that the news media shouldn't have immediate access to court records in the ongoing Guantanamo detainee litigation. In another example, the administration on Wednesday told the American Civil Liberties Union that it needed more time to decide whether to release undisclosed Bush Justice Department memos that justified harsh interrogation torture practices.

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