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• E-mails filed in Secret Service racism lawsuit 05/12/08 Evidence includes messages portraying an offensive image of a naked black man and racist jokes.
• Congress eyes dramatic expansion of GI bill 05/12/08 Plan would essentially offer a full-ride scholarship to any in-state public university, monthly housing stipend for individuals with at least three years' military service.
• Ex-State officials allege corruption cover up 05/12/08 Former employees claim the department's Office of Accountability and Transparency was understaffed and its warnings and recommendations ignored.

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  Taking It To the Streets
  The U.S. military has seen the future, and it involves urban warfare.
  Government Executive 3/1/08

• State Department proposes to relax aircraft export rules 05/12/08 Move aims to address aerospace industry's chronic complaints that the cumbersome process of approving licenses to export their products handicaps companies' ability to compete.
• Internet is fueling emergence of violent Islamist groups in the United States 05/12/08 Federal agencies have no comprehensive strategy to combat terrorist message, Senate committee finds.
• Blackwater unlikely to face charges in Iraq shooting 05/09/08
• Defense to review 'unnecessary duplication' among services 05/09/08
• GAO: Homeland Security lacks adequate workforce for performance-based acquisitions 05/09/08
• From NextGov.com: Bill lays out stricter info security requirements for DHS 05/09/08
• Coast Guard accepts preliminary delivery of national security cutter 05/09/08
• From NextGov.com: Navy changes course on IT outsourcing 05/08/08
• FBI withdraws national security letters subpoena, freeing target to talk 05/08/08
• Panel sinks Navy's $2.5B request for DDG-1000 destroyer 05/08/08
• Less than 8 percent of port workers have new security ID cards 05/08/08
• Senators decry lack of cooperation in analyzing threats 05/07/08

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