Democrats to try to restore war profiteering inquiries

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Congressional Democrats say they will press new legislation this week to restore the power of a federal agency in charge of ferreting out waste and corruption in Iraq and greatly increase its investigative reach.

The bills, the first of what are likely to be dozens of Democratic efforts to resurrect investigations of war profiteering and financial fraud in government contracting, could be introduced as early as Monday morning.

The move would nullify a Republican-backed provision that set a termination date for the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, whose findings have consistently undermined Bush administration claims of widespread success in the reconstruction of Iraq.

"There have been serious allegations and evidence of misconduct among suppliers," said Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who is in line to become chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. "And the taxpayers, of course, get socked on that. And the troops are not properly taken care of when that happens."

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/DN-dems_12nat.ART.State.Edition1.3e31f76.html

[babylonsister]

1. I'm salivating to see these hearings. I want all the lies and

corruption to be exposed. And I want to see where the tentacles go and who in the government has been involved (Cheney, anyone?). This more than anything will get everyone's blood boiling.

[Frustratedlady]

4. Hopefully, it will open the floodgates and all the other corruption

will be exposed...or, at the least, provoke those who are unaware of what has been happening to rise up and demand complete disclosure.

Gotta stock up on popcorn, AGAIN!:popcorn:

[acmejack]

2. The Duncan Hunter Initiative?

Made all the more shocking by the fact that he has a child in the service.

[KharmaTrain]

3. Duncan Hunter's Worst Nightmare...

Here's hoping Senator Levin and Congressman Waxman dig deep into this one. Nothing is more treasonous than the war profiteering that has gone on in this ugly invasion. Be assured the regime in the White House will fight every subpoena and stonewall a mile high, but the truth will out. Too much money has been squandered and gone unaccounted for.

Next we look into those juicy defense contracts and contractors who spun gold from their political donations. Mitchell Wade was just one of many who found cozy profits in the military-industrial complex and Mr. Hunter, Mr. Lewis and others got quite a nice reward for their "facilitating". Now let's find out what that was...and I'm sure we will as investigators probe further into Lewis, Doolittle and I believe right into Mr. Lemon Chicken's kitchen. So much for his presidential aspirations.

Lastly, but definitely not lastly...this needs urgent attention...a look into all the Katrina contracts and what happened to that large sum of money...why are people, like MerH and thousands of others, still without homes and closure on their tragedy...or at least a step in a positive direction. Let's go through all those no-bid deals line by line and find out who profited from this tragedy and then whose palms got greased along the way.

The muck is deep and it's gonna take years to drain this fetid swamp...the sooner we get going, the soon we get an accountability of how bad things were. It also will keep corruption as a big issue in the '08 campaign.

[Toots]

5. Bush* is already warming up his VETO pen..

He must protect the Mission and that mission is War Profiteering and Absconding with their oil....