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$30 Million

— How much Army Corps of Engineers contracting officer Kerry Khan stole from U.S. taxpayers using bribery and kickbacks between 2006 and 2011. The Justice Department, here, calls it “the largest domestic bribery and bid-rigging scheme in the history of federal contracting.” A federal judge sentenced Khan, 55, to 20 years imprisonment Thursday.

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Pew survey on how much Americans believe each job contributes to society’s well-being (click on it to enlarge).

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One of the confounding things about sexual assault in the military is that is some corners it is tolerated, winked at, and/or laughed about. Yet elsewhere inside the same institution, the military goes to extraordinary lengths to …

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— The number of phone calls between Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Egyptian military chief General Abdel Fattah Al Sisi since July 2.
Even if no single act of theirs can do the damage of a September 11th, 2001, smaller, more frequent attacks that can kill people, shock the country, show us how vulnerable we are, can just as well serve the goal of these jihadist groups, which is, after all to try to frighten us, to destabilize us, to make us become less confident in our system of government.
— Rudy Giuliani, who as mayor of New York City on 9/11 led it through its toughest days, testifying Wednesday on the danger posed by smaller, but still lethal, terrorists.
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