[digg-reddit-me]Harpers has compiled a numerical summary of the Bush administration. Here’s a taste:
Minimum number of calls the FBI received in fall 2001 from Utah residents claiming to have seen Osama bin Laden:
20Number of members of the rock band Anthrax who said they hoarded Cipro so as to avoid an “ironic death”:
1Minimum number of laws that Bush signing statements have exempted his administration from following:
1,069Estimated number of U.S. intelligence reports on Iraq that were based on information from a single defector:
100Number of times the defector had ever been interviewed by U.S. intelligence agents:
0Days after the U.S. invaded Iraq that Sony trademarked “Shock & Awe” for video games:
1Days later that the company gave up the trademark, citing “regrettable bad judgment”:
25Minimum number of detainees who were tortured to death in U.S. custody:
8Estimated amount Bush-era policies will cost the U.S. in new debt and accrued obligations:
$10,350,000,000,000