Pentagon Scraps Terror Futures Market

[indigo32]

The Pentagon (news - web sites) on Tuesday scrapped a planned online futures market that aimed to get information on Middle East events by letting investors bet on the probability of wars, terrorist attacks and assassinations.


One day after Democrats in Congress brought the Pentagon's Policy Analysis Market to light with withering criticism, a Defense Department spokesman said the program had been terminated.


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They must think they can get away with absolutely ANYTHING

[aquart]

1. Well, HAVEN'T they?

[walkon]

2. Sen Barbara Boxer Called For Firing Whom Ever "Imagined" this program

In her spanking of Wolfowitz - she chastised him for making light of it as he excused the idea as just "over imaginative" and she said she would hope that the person(s) responsible would no longer have their position(s). I agree.

[grasswire]

3. I want an investigation anyway

We need to know who okayed this outrageous project.

[Enraged_Ape]

4. Why, John Poindexter of course

This has the Iran-Contra buffoon's fingerprints all over it.

I would have thought this admin would have done a background check on Poindexter before they hired him. Don't they know he's a convicted felon? (Sarcasm off)

[MrBenchley]

5. Think about it this way

These guys see Tom Ridge, AshKKKroft, and Drunky McWarboy up close every day....no wonder they thought terror attacks on America would be a growth indfustry worth betting on...

[umcwb]

6. Locking - Dupe

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