Friday, March 30, 2007

Dianne Feinstein's Billion-Dollar Culture of Corruption


Shockingly, there's no mainstream media coverage of Senator Dianne Feinstein's resignation from a sensitive post amid allegations of corruption. Instead, we've had to rely on grassroots news reports to find out that Feinstein just 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. As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the details of military construction, even micromanaging one project at the level of its sewer design. She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects, some of which were contracted to her husband's companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp...

Others covering the slime include Captain's Quarters, Hot Air, and Judicial Watch.

Billions of dollars are at stake. When Democrats mention a "culture of corruption," they know of what they speak. This is big-league sleaze at its worst.

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