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To: steve harris who wrote (343893)	7/22/2007 12:34:06 PM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576988

Yes, but the fact is that when the Allies's leaders claimed they didn't know they were believed but when the German citizens said the same thing they were all liars. Again, check you complete Churchill "World War II" and nowhere does he mention the Holocaust. Maybe he didn't know by the early fifties, when he finished it? Taro

To: steve harris who wrote (343893)	7/22/2007 1:23:44 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576988

She Takes the Blame for Passport Mess By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN,AP Posted: 2007-07-22 10:31:54 Filed Under: Nation WASHINGTON (July 22) - The current passport mess is rare among government foul-ups: A top federal official has publicly taken the blame and expressed regret. "Over the past several months, many travelers who applied for a passport did not receive their document in time for their planned travel. I deeply regret that," says Assistant Secretary of State Maura Harty, who is in charge of passports for U.S. citizens. "I accept complete responsibility for this." In an effort to thwart terrorists, the government implemented new rules on Jan. 23 requiring more Americans to have passports. By summer, more than 2 million Americans were waiting for passports; half a million had waited more than three months since applying for the travel identification that historically has been ready in six weeks. The massive backlog has destroyed summer vacations, ruined wedding and honeymoon plans, disrupted business meetings and educational trips. Individuals have lost days of work waiting in lines or thousands of dollars in nonrefundable travel and lodging deposits. And Congress has been overwhelmed as constituent pleas for passport help soared from dozens a year to hundreds a month in many offices. The culprits have variously been identified as inept planning, underfunded preparations, popular misunderstanding of poorly crafted government advertising, unanticipated effects of public debate over immigration, tardy and ill-considered responses to the developing crisis, and even partly on Hurricane Katrina, which damaged the New Orleans processing office. Some in Congress wonder if the effort hasn't actually harmed security. Others question whether more passports actually contribute much to security at all. Copyright 2007 The Associated Press