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Originally Posted by navyvet50
The Repugs lost 9 BILLION in Iraq. Haliburton is stealing your money. The Dems are are at fault? Wow quit licking Dubyas balls, he will be gone soon and you can bitch about President Barack Hussein Obama.
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News & Culture in CA | Dianne Feinstein resigns
SEN. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum's ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein.
The MILCON subcommittee is not only in charge of supervising military construction, it also oversees "quality of life" issues for veterans, which includes building housing for military families and operating hospitals and clinics for wounded soldiers. Perhaps Feinstein is trying to disassociate herself from MILCON's incredible failure to provide decent medical care for wounded soldiers.
US: Saddam paid for lawmakers' Iraq trip - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
An indictment unsealed in Detroit accuses Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a member of a Michigan nonprofit group, of arranging for three members of Congress to travel to Iraq in October 2002 at the behest of Saddam's regime. Prosecutors say Iraqi intelligence officials paid for the trip through an intermediary.
Nigerian link led to FBI raid in corruption case - International Herald Tribune
WASHINGTON: The FBI raided the Maryland home of the vice president of Nigeria last summer in search of bribe money that the bureau believed had been paid to him by Representative William Jefferson, according to court documents.
The documents released Tuesday included an affidavit signed by an FBI agent who said that the Nigerian vice president, Atiku Abubakar, now a candidate for president of that oil-rich West African country, asked for at least half of the profits of a technology company controlled by Jefferson that was seeking to do business in Nigeria.
About the same time last year, the documents said, Jefferson told colleagues of his plans to bribe Nigerian officials, including Abubakar, in exchange for their help in winning business in Nigeria, and that Abubakar would be paid as much as $500,000 in cash.