Good News, Bad News for 08-19-06

• FBI blows $170 million on a computerized criminal case file tracking system that doesn't work (The Washington Post)

• PONY League baseball agrees to provide equal opportunity to players with disabilities (Justice Department)

• Two golf cart-sized NASA satellites are set to tee-off on a cool mission to study the hot sun (NASA)

• Speaking of hot: 129 new wildfires have been reported nationwide (National Fire Information Center)

• After spending about $2.2 billion on new stuff, America's 75.5 million students are heading back to school (Census Bureau)

• President Bush handed out presidential pardons to these 17 people (Justice Department)

More About Presidential Pardons
Presidential Pardons: Legal Guidelines
Standards Applied to Presidential Pardons
Presidential Pardons: Alexander Hamilton's Opinion