<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: News &amp; Videos about U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/U_S_House_Committee_on_Oversight_and_Government_Reform</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:42:09 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: News &amp; Videos about U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/U_S_House_Committee_on_Oversight_and_Government_Reform</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Pay czar: I don't want more authority</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/28/news/companies/feinberg_hearing/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/28/news/companies/feinberg_hearing/index.htm</guid><description>Washington's so-called "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg cautioned lawmakers against extending his authority to the hundreds of other companies that accepted government bailout money.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stocks: Trying to recharge the rally</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/23/markets/sunday_lookahead/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/23/markets/sunday_lookahead/index.htm</guid><description>The quarterly reporting period has gotten off to a bang-up start, with 81% of companies outshining analysts' forecasts. But with expectations now raised, the latest crop of strong results has had little impact on the broad market.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>AIG bailout 'significant' taxpayer risk</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/21/news/companies/aig_bailout/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/21/news/companies/aig_bailout/index.htm</guid><description>AIG has stabilized thanks to a massive government bailout, but more than $120 billion in taxpayer loans to the insurance company remain at risk, according to a report issued Monday by a bailout overseer.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Drug-related killings in Mexico on course to top last year's numbers</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/07/09/mexico.drug.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/07/09/mexico.drug.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Despite massive security efforts north and south of the border, the drug-fueled killing spree in Mexico is continuing and is on course to surpass last year's record toll, federal officials told Congress Thursday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Congress to AIG: We don't trust you</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/13/news/companies/aig/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/13/news/companies/aig/index.htm</guid><description>The CEO of bailed-out insurer American International Group told Congress on Wednesday that the company has made "substantial" progress in its restructuring efforts, but lawmakers said they wanted more to show for it.</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 20:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>AIG payback? Don't hold your breath</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/12/news/companies/aig/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/12/news/companies/aig/index.htm</guid><description>AIG Chief Executive Edward Liddy will appear before a House committee Wednesday to lay out the company's plan for paying back billions of taxpayer dollars.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 19:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Let shame be A-Rod's punishment</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/09/toobin.steroids/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/09/toobin.steroids/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Congressional hearings rarely produce much news of interest, or much good for the world, but the House Government Reform Committee did a great service to baseball -- and the country -- on March 17, 2005.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Michael McCann: Radomski's book could help Clemens</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/michael_mccann/01/26/radomski.clemens/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/michael_mccann/01/26/radomski.clemens/index.html</guid><description>Roger Clemens and his legal team may receive much-needed positive news with Tuesday's publication of Kirk Radomski's new book, Bases Loaded: The Inside Story of the Steroid Era in Baseball by the Central Figure in the Mitchell Report. </description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:18:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Congress probes hedge fund industry</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/13/news/economy/congress_hedgefund_hearing/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/13/news/economy/congress_hedgefund_hearing/index.htm</guid><description>A congressional committee scrutinized risks in the hedge fund industry on Thursday to determine whether further regulation is needed.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:36:00 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EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Actor tells House panel of newborn twins' overdose</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/14/quaid.congress/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/14/quaid.congress/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Actor Dennis Quaid told lawmakers Wednesday how his newborn twins came close to death after an overdose of blood-thinning medication, the fault of a drug company that did not recall easily confused bottles despite previous problems, he said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 23:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Federal contracting chief quits under fire</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/30/gsa.chief.resigns/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/30/gsa.chief.resigns/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The head of the U.S. government's top contracting agency has resigned amid accusations of misuse of authority, including allegations that she tried to 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military supplied corroded and decades-old Chinese ammunition to the Afghan Army and police.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>House Probes Soldier Electrocutions</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1724107,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1724107,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A U.S. House committee chairman has begun an investigation into the electrocutions of at least 12 service members in Iraq</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Congress to grill Mozilo, O'Neal, Prince over pay</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/22/news/newsmakers/executive_pay/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/22/news/newsmakers/executive_pay/index.htm</guid><description>Two high-profile former Wall Street CEOs and the head of the nation's largest home lender will testify Friday before a congressional committee examining the link between executive pay and the mortgage crisis.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>3 CEOs made $460 million - House panel</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/06/news/exec_comp/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/06/news/exec_comp/index.htm</guid><description>Three chief executives with ties to the mortgage crisis were paid $460 million over five years, according to a congressional report issued Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Michael McCann: Clemens' legal strategy backfired</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/michael_mccann/02/28/clemens.investigation/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/michael_mccann/02/28/clemens.investigation/index.html</guid><description>A person close to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee with knowledge of its proceedings tells SI.com that Roger Clemens and his legal team made a devastating strategic blunder in regards to the now infamous Jose Canseco lunch party that took place in June 1998. The alleged blunder caused members of the committee and their staff to deeply question Clemens' veracity and the wisdom of his legal team's counsel.</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:33:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>House panel requests federal probe of Clemens' testimony</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/27/congress.clemens/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/27/congress.clemens/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Leading members of the House of Representatives asked the Justice Department on Wednesday to probe whether baseball great Roger Clemens "committed perjury and made knowingly false statements" during a congressional hearing.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:37:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Michael McCann: Congress united against Clemens in request for probe</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/michael_mccann/02/27/clemens.congress/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/michael_mccann/02/27/clemens.congress/index.html</guid><description>The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's request to the Justice Department may trigger lasting consequences from both legal and political perspectives.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Congress' executive pay hearing postponed</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/26/news/companies/paypostponed/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/26/news/companies/paypostponed/index.htm</guid><description>A congressional hearing set to feature three high-profile financial executives has been postponed after the death of a witness's mother.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:45:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fan may have picture of Rocket at Canseco's house</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/02/22/clemens.party/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/02/22/clemens.party/index.html</guid><description>According to the New York Daily News, federal investigators have a picture provided by a young man who was at the now infamous Jose Canseco house party in 1998 that reportedly shows definitively that another guest was there: Roger Clemens.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:28:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Lawmakers to Bush: Put more pressure on Pakistan</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/29/house.pakistan/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/29/house.pakistan/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Members of Congress on Tuesday called on the Bush administration to increase pressure on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to ensure free and fair elections in his nation.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>John Donovan: Rep. Lynch has good idea who's lying</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/02/12/donovan.lynch/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/02/12/donovan.lynch/index.html</guid><description>For those expecting another predictable round of wild accusations between Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee during Wednesday's hearing on Capitol Hill, with no clear-cut resolution as to who is telling the truth and who isn't, take note: At least one member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said he already has a pretty good idea of who's lying.</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Michael McCann: Answering questions from the wild legal saga</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/michael_mccann/02/12/mccann.hearings/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/michael_mccann/02/12/mccann.hearings/index.html</guid><description>1) Why would Andy Pettitte, Chuck Knoblauch and Kirk Radomski ask out of the hearing? </description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:35:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>John Rolfe: Clemens circus a shabby spectacle</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/john_rolfe/02/12/clemens.circus/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/john_rolfe/02/12/clemens.circus/index.html</guid><description>Many moons ago, Mad magazine ran photos of prominent politicians with a concise expression of disgust at the bottom of each: Ecccch.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:31:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>David Epstein: Clemens to committee mebers: I'm clean</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/david_epstein/02/07/congress.clemens/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/david_epstein/02/07/congress.clemens/index.html</guid><description>It appears from his one-on-one meetings with members of Congress that Roger Clemens will be sticking to his guns when he goes before the congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Feb. 13.</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:40:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Michael McCann: Examining the latest twist in the saga</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/michael_mccann/02/07/mccann.clemensevidence/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/michael_mccann/02/07/mccann.clemensevidence/index.html</guid><description>1) What physical evidence did Brian McNamee provide the government?</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>David Epstein: Answering some key questions</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/david_epstein/01/29/epstein.hearing/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/david_epstein/01/29/epstein.hearing/index.html</guid><description>With Chuck Knoblauch having agreed to meet with the congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the full batting order is set for the Feb. 13 congressional hearing. On Wednesday, Andy Pettitte will meet privately with committee staff members, with Roger Clemens, Brian McNamee, Knoblauch and Kirk Radomski heading to Washington D.C. in the following days.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:12:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Where Are the White House E-mails?
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1706374,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1706374,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A House Committee chairman charges that large numbers of crucial Iraq-related messages have vanished. The White House says not so. Who's right?</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>David Epstein: Even without immunity, McNamee likely to testify</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/david_epstein/01/18/epstein.immunity/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/david_epstein/01/18/epstein.immunity/index.html</guid><description>Late this week came the news that Brian McNamee's quest for immunity in his testimony to the congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is not going as swimmingly as his lawyers had hoped. "[McNamee] wants to testify," says his lawyer Earl Ward, "and we're still trying to work out a solution that would allow him to testify."</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:46:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>David Epstein: HGH blood test already exists</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/david_epstein/01/17/epstein.HGH/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/david_epstein/01/17/epstein.HGH/index.html</guid><description>One of the controversies in the wake of Tuesday's Congressional hearing is over the existence of a viable test for human growth hormone. Commissioner Bud Selig told the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that he would support a test for HGH "when a valid, commercially available and practical test for HGH becomes reality, regardless of whether the test is based on blood or urine."</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:27:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Michael McCann: Tejada facing trouble with investigation</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/michael_mccann/01/15/mccann.tejada/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/michael_mccann/01/15/mccann.tejada/index.html</guid><description>Although the Justice Department has not yet accepted the invitation from Congressmen Henry Waxman and Tom Davis to investigate whether Miguel Tejada lied to the staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform -- let alone has the Justice Department commenced an investigation or come to findings unfavorable to Tejada -- Tejada could find himself in serious trouble if the government can prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that he knowingly and willfully lied about a matter material to the Committee's investigation.</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Michael McCann: MLB could punish teams, too</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/michael_mccann/01/15/cong.hearing.qa/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/michael_mccann/01/15/cong.hearing.qa/index.html</guid><description>Baseball commissioner Bud Selig, union head Donald Fehr and former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell testified about baseball's steroids issue before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Tuesday. SI.com's Michael McCann answers the key questions.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:51:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Michael McCann: Fehr and Selig in D.C.</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/michael_mccann/01/14/mccann.congress/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/michael_mccann/01/14/mccann.congress/index.html</guid><description>In the opener of Congress' baseball/steroids doubleheader, baseball commissioner Bud Selig, union head Donald Fehr and former Senate majority leader George Mitchell are to testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Tuesday. SI.com's Michael McCann answers the key questions.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>David Epstein: Notes on Tuesday's Congressional hearing</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/david_epstein/01/14/epstein.congress/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/david_epstein/01/14/epstein.congress/index.html</guid><description>It's hard to gauge the impact that the playing of a 17-minute, recorded phone conversation between Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee during Clemens' press conference on Jan. 7 had on public opinion. But it doesn't seem to have impressed members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform who will hear testimony from the two men next month. SI.com interviews with seven committee members suggest that the Congressmen and women who will be grilling Clemens and McNamee found the recording, at best, to yield little informational value. At worst, they saw it as tasteless.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>John Donovan: Mr. Selig goes to Washington (again)</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/john_donovan/01/11/donovan.congress/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/john_donovan/01/11/donovan.congress/index.html</guid><description>When Bud Selig and Don Fehr once again face up to Congress next week, the occasion won't hold anywhere near the drama and intrigue that next month's high-stakes, finger-pointing, lawyered-up Capitol Hill showdown between pitching great Roger Clemens and his one-time trainer, Brian McNamee, promises.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:46:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Clemens Asked to Testify to Congress</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1700482,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1700482,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte were asked Friday to testify before a congressional committee on Jan. 16, along with their former trainer, Brian McNamee</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>GAO: Investigators pass security at 19 airports with bomb parts</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/14/gao.airport.security/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/14/gao.airport.security/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Investigators with bomb-making components in their luggage and on their person were able to pass through security checkpoints at 19 U.S. airports without detection, according to the Government Accountability Office.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:35:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Mom: My son was mutilated and I want answers</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/07/mom.blackwater/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/07/mom.blackwater/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Donna Zovko walks to her son's grave. Tears stream down her face and she begins trembling amid a steady rain. She kisses her right hand and with it strokes her boy's headstone.</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:21:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Waxman: Blackwater may have evaded millions in taxes </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/23/congress.blackwater/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/23/congress.blackwater/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A congressional committee investigating the performance of Blackwater USA questioned whether the private security firm may have evaded paying millions of dollars in taxes.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blackwater boss defends contractors' 'honorable' work</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/02/blackwater.hearing/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/02/blackwater.hearing/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The founder and chief executive of Blackwater USA defended his company against allegations that his contractors were trigger-happy mercenaries Tuesday, saying that his personnel have distinguished records and have never intentionally killed civilians. </description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mom: Blackwater should never forget my boy</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/02/blackwater.falluja/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/02/blackwater.falluja/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Katy Helvenston never wants Blackwater or America to forget her boy. Scott Helvenston was a decorated Navy man who, at age 17, became one of the youngest Navy SEALs in U.S. history. </description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blackwater CEO's opening statement</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/02/blackwater.transcript/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/02/blackwater.transcript/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Erik Prince, the chairman and CEO of Blackwater USA, appeared Tuesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blackwater contractor wrote government report on incident</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/02/blackwater.spot.report/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/02/blackwater.spot.report/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The State Department's initial report of last month's incident in which Blackwater guards were accused of killing Iraqi civilians was written by a Blackwater contractor working in the embassy security detail, according to government and industry sources.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraqi official: Blackwater involved in second shooting September 16</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/01/iraq.blackwater.secondshooting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/01/iraq.blackwater.secondshooting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>One group of Blackwater USA contractors was involved in two separate shootings on September 16, according to a senior Iraqi National Police official who contributed to a report detailing the second shooting.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blackwater most often shoots first, congressional report says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/01/blackwater.report/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/01/blackwater.report/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Blackwater USA guards have used deadly force weekly in Iraq and have inflicted "significant casualties and property damage," according to a congressional staff report released Monday that cites internal company and State Department documents.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blackwater Plans a Fierce Defense</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1667338,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1667338,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The security company's chief will tell a House committee that it is effective in a difficult climate. Will Democrats buy it?</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: Blackwater 'impeded' probe into contractor deaths</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/27/iraq.blackwater/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/27/iraq.blackwater/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Private military contractor Blackwater USA "delayed and impeded" a congressional probe into the 2004 killings of four of its employees in Falluja, Iraq, the House Oversight Committee said Thursday in a report.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:34:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Clash over White House claim office can keep records secret</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/23/whitehouse.secrecy.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/23/whitehouse.secrecy.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A House committee chairman led the criticism Wednesday about the Bush administration's claim that a White House office involved in a dispute over missing e-mails can keep records from the public.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Army censures general for 'deception' after Tillman death</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/31/tillman.probe/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/31/tillman.probe/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Calling him the captain of a ship that ran aground, the Army Tuesday announced it has censured a retired three-star general for misleading investigators probing the controversial death of Cpl. Pat Tillman.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rumsfeld: No cover-up in Tillman's death</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/01/tillman.probe/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/01/tillman.probe/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Wednesday there was no evidence of a cover-up of the circumstances of Army Ranger Cpl. Pat Tillman's death.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>