July 19th, 2010
11:58 PM ET

The day's most popular stories

The five most popular CNN.com stories during the last 24 hours, according to Newspulse.

Police: Body is that of missing mother: A body found Sunday in a vacant lot in Camden, New Jersey, is that of a 23-year-old Pennsylvania woman, police say.

Gulf well tests held over another day: Tests on the ruptured BP well in the Gulf of Mexico will go on for another 24 hours as federal and company officials try to explain "anomalous" pressure readings and possible leaks, the federal government's point man on the spill said Monday.

Spencer Pratt: I chose fame over Heidi: Spencer Pratt always has some strange new ploy for attention up his sleeve - but not his split from wife Heidi Montag. That, he says, despite the fact that nobody has seen divorce papers and family and "Hills" castmates are skeptical, is the real deal.

Nexus One quietly discontinued by Google: With the eyes of the technology world squarely on Apple's iPhone 4, Google quietly announced it will stop selling the Nexus One, its first and possibly only foray into the smartphone world.

Born-again rebel Don Miller opens up: "I could have easily ended up in prison," Donald Miller would write about the man whose faith in his writing turned his life around. He says his mentor's life was a sermon.
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  1. Smith in Oregon

    Today's Washington Post revealed the extremely vast scope of what the utterly corrupt and depraved Republican administration of Bush-Cheney had built on hidden taxpayer money, behind the backs of many elected lawmakers under the guise of 'The Dept. of Homeland Security Agency'. A 1 Trillion dollar boon dongle composed of 1,300 Agency's across America with 800,000 employees at top secret or higher clearance!

    And how did Bush-Cheney fund that under the very noses of Congressional oversight members? By stealing that amount largely from the huge Social Security coffer and issuing Treasury IOU's in return.

    What is really troubling is if the new Shadow branch of Government is actually above the civilian elected Executive Branch of the President and do they dictate to The President?

    Another troubling feature of this gigantic shadow Government is that in a peaceful world, this enormous taxpayer dollar gulping super agency would quickly be broken up and shut-down. In order to even function and have a reason to continue to exist there must be several ongoing Wars all the time. And I suspect if no Wars are ongoing, this new American shadow Government would create several Wars.

    This is a fearful and sad chapter for America's people and elected democracy whom largely doesn't live in deep underground taxpayer provided Military bunkers. The propeller heads living in such deep bunkers often come to act out plans and operations which the majority living on the surface in wooden houses wouldn't survive.

    July 20, 2010 at 2:29 am | Report abuse |
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      July 20, 2010 at 4:14 am | Report abuse |
    • MIMI

      What nonsense!

      August 9, 2010 at 3:55 pm | Report abuse |
  2. Smith in Oregon

    Could someone check the math here, this appears to be something like a depraved US Military Dr. Strange Love preparing for WW3 numbers!

    Today's Washington Post revealed some of the gigantic scope of the new Shadow Governmental Branch the utterly corrupt, paranoid and depraved Republican administration of Bush-Cheney created under the guise of 'Dept. of Homeland Security'. A mind staggering 800,000 employees at top secret clearance or higher, 1,300 new agency offices nationwide. While the percentage of total employees in this Shadow Government to the managers holding Top Secret or higher access is not publically known, it must be 2 to 1 or higher. That would mean at least 2.4 Million employees or more!

    The 800,000 managers with Top Secret or higher clearance's would easily pull in 100,000 or more each. That would place just their annual federal payroll at a staggering 80 Billion dollars? The total on the books costs for this Shadow Government is 75 Billion dollars! Although it is widely felt the total is perhaps 5x larger or more. Apparently the rest is funneled thru various shadow accounts to hide the true total American taxpayer costs from Congressional oversight.

    At least 2.4 Million employees operating in a ultra-secret Shadow Government network in 1,300 new agency offices across the Nation and setting up each of those 1,300 new agency offices no doubt cost a great deal of American taxpayer dollars as well. Such an enormous secret Shadow Government would normally be dismantled during a peaceful period on the Earth, however my grave concern is that such a Shadow Government would create multiple Wars if none existed.

    July 20, 2010 at 5:13 am | Report abuse |
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