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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: ManyMoose who wrote (264911)6/18/2002 10:22:08 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 769667
 
Well blow me down with a feather
Actually you make my point better than I could. Perhaps you now realise that Faux News, Rush Limbaugh, and other sources intentionally mislead their listeners in the full knowledge that they won't check the facts.

washtimes.com
Democrats dismissed the findings of the investigation — which they say cost about $200,000 to conduct just to find $14,000 in damages
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"The condition of the real property was consistent with what we would expect to encounter when tenants vacate office space after an extended occupancy," the GSA said in a statement.


To get the real flavor of this report you have to do some math.
say as many as 75 computer keyboards had to be replaced — at a cost of more than $5,000 — because Clinton staffers had broken off the W keys,
The actual report says 69 I think and most of the W keys were in the desk draw nearby., and if you add up the cost they paid an awful lot to replace these keyboards. The last one I bought was $14 and it had all sorts of special functions including a builtin calculator. They tried hard to stretch the expense, but there just wasn't much to report.

TP
The actual GAO report is probably on their web site.