News Roundup: Other Stuff You Don't Want To Miss
 Friday, March 14th, 2008

Condoleezza Rice testified this week regarding the proposed fiscal year 2009 budget for foreign operations, the Taliban, and the war...and someone behind her with a sign got their say on C-Span 2 Live.

From the Consumerist, where "shoppers bite back," here is an insider article on the
7 Confessions Of A Verizon DSL Tech Support Rep, including:  The supervisor you're talking to is not actually a supervisor; why you get transferred back into the hold queue when you shouldn't; why they purposely use the word "outstanding;" and more.

This is nothing good, but you oughta know The Associated Press has reported that the severed fingers of five U.S. hostages were sent from Iraq to U.S. government officials.  The FBI has declined to confirm that fingers were sent but acknowledges DNA evidence was received.

The U.S. Defense Department is reviewing their practice of videotaping interrogations; the U.S. Military does not regularly tape them, and has no uniform policy on it.  Less than 50 tapes have been found according to the Pentagon, and tapes are usually destroyed after 90 days.

65-year-old Iraq Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraq Rahho, who was kidnapped on February 29th, was found dead.  Whitehouse spokesman Tony Fratto said today that it was murder, and branded it as a "tragic act of terrorism."

Sorry the News Roundup is depressing today.

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