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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-good-ranger-stands-up-to-bad-bureaucrats">        <title>A good ranger stands up to bad bureaucrats</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-good-ranger-stands-up-to-bad-bureaucrats</link>        <description>National Park Service ranger Robert Danno is still being punished by the agency he loves, despite being vindicated for his work as a whistleblower eight years ago.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Andrea Lankford</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>EMTs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>illegal tree-cutting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>political corruption</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fran Mainella</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Park Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>political scandals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dan Snyder</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Robert M. Danno</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>government whistleblowers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>whistleblower retaliation</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-04-17T18:42:36Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.19/interior-scandal-rated-g-reen">        <title>Interior scandal: Rated G(reen)</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.19/interior-scandal-rated-g-reen</link>        <description>Recent scandals at the Interior Department – this time involving environmentalists – pale in magnitude (and luridness) compared to the agency's dalliances with industry.   
</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jonathan Thompson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>political scandals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ken Salazar</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gale Norton</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Minerals Management Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interior Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Landscape Conservation System</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:39:18Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad year</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jon Margolis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>political scandals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>House
Resources Committee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jack Abramoff</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Siegenthaler</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Charles Hurwitz</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>FDIC</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>savings and loan bailout</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mashpee Wampanoag
tribe</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>tribal recognition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native American Affairs Subcommittee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pete M</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:57:01Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/310/15906">        <title>The Latest Bounce</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/310/15906</link>        <description>Assistant Interior Secretary Rebecca Watson resigns; Texas
oil baron Oscar Wyatt indicted in Iraq oil-for-food scandal;
Congress won’t fund "bunker buster" nukes; Fish and Wildlife
OK with lynx mortality at proposed Wolf Creek ski village</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Land Management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interior Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rebecca
Watson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling permits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gale Norton</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George
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                    <dc:subject>Bush environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oscar Wyatt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil-for-food
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                    <dc:subject>Saddam Hussein</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>political scandals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>indictments</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Book
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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/302/15658">        <title>Pombo's power grows — and so do the
scandals</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/302/15658</link>        <description>Since Richard Pombo took over the House Resources
Committee in 2003, the number of scandals around him has steadily
grown</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Weiser</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>House of Representatives</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>House Resources
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                    <dc:subject>political scandals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tom DeLay</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jack Abramoff</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mariana
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                    <dc:subject>sweatshops</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rich PAC</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>House Franking Committee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Public
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                    <dc:subject>Brian Kennedy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gale Norton</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>nepotism</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>L.A.
Times</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:25:39Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/327/16450">        <title>Why did Norton really leave Interior?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/327/16450</link>        <description>If outgoing Interior Secretary Gale Norton didn’t
receive a push out the door, she certainly deserved one after her
involvement in the sleazy Jack Abramoff scandal</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jon Margolis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Native Americans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gambling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Appointed Officials</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gale Norton</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interior Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jack Abramoff</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S.
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                    <dc:subject>Paul O’Neill</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Snow</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Treasury Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George
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                    <dc:subject>political scandals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>political corruption</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colin Powell</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John McCain</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Senate Indian Affairs Committee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Republican Party</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush White</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-21T23:46:45Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/367/17603">        <title>Two weeks in the West</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/367/17603</link>        <description>A good time to buy a McMansion – cheap; lawmakers
wrangle over development; “eco-terrorism” in suburbia;
EPA head honcho in trouble; cleaning up dirty Western air –
and a few dirty Western politicians.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Sarah Gilman and Jodi Peterson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Earth Liberation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Stephen Johnson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western real estate</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>political scandals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Front</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>air</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Housing slump</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EPA</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-08-11T22:52:46Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/330/16543">        <title>Will Montanans reject their bagman?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/330/16543</link>        <description>Even Montanans critical of Sen. Conrad Burns admit
he’s a genius at bringing home the pork – a fact that
may make it harder for his Democratic challenger, Jon Tester, in
the November election.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>State University</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>pork</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>funding</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>NASA</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jon Tester</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Democratic Party</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Elections</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gary Strobel</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>federal money</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>political scandals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tax Foundation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nat</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Conrad Burns</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jerry Calvert</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Party</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>political appropriations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Republican</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jack Abramoff</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-10-26T22:26:06Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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