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Is DiFi dirty?
hotair.com ^ | March 29, 2007 | Bryan

Posted on 03/29/2007 9:47:17 PM PDT by Mo1

Hmmmm. What was that about the “culture of corruption?”

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.

Feinstein abandoned MILCON as her ethical problems were surfacing in the media, and as it was becoming clear that her subcommittee left grievously wounded veterans to rot while her family was profiting from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. It turns out that Blum also holds large investments in companies that were selling medical equipment and supplies and real estate leases—often without the benefit of competitive bidding—to the Department of Veterans Affairs, even as the system of medical care for veterans collapsed on his wife’s watch.

As of December 2006, according to SEC filings and www.fedspending.org, three corporations in which Blum’s financial entities own a total of $1 billion in stock won considerable favor from the budgets of the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs:

# Boston Scientific Corporation: $17.8 million for medical equipment and supplies; 85 percent of contracts awarded without benefit of competition.

# Kinetic Concepts Inc.: $12 million, medical equipment and supplies; 28 percent noncompetitively awarded.

# CB Richard Ellis: The Blum-controlled international real estate firm holds congressionally funded contracts to lease office space to the Department of Veterans Affairs. It also is involved in redeveloping military bases turned over to the private sector.

Dr. Rusty has a few questions related to this story, and an observation:

This is genuine news. Political corruption on a scale as big as Duke Cunningham, and the mainstream press is worried about 8 US attorneys losing their jobs in a completely legal hard-ball political axing-session.

The Culture of Corruption has ‘returned’ - bigger and better than ever before!

Actually, the “culture of corruption” never left.


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: democrats; diannefeinstein

1 posted on 03/29/2007 9:47:18 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: Mo1

Is the Pope German?


2 posted on 03/29/2007 9:47:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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To: pinz-n-needlez; onyx; ohioWfan; BigSkyFreeper; Dog; My2Cents; Howlin; nopardons; OXENinFLA; kcvl; ..

FYI Ping


3 posted on 03/29/2007 9:54:43 PM PDT by Mo1 ( http://www.gohunter08.com)
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To: Mo1
Very interesting, but the MSM will ignore it all and most of the American populace will never know anything at all about this. As a result, nothing is going to happen to DiFi.
4 posted on 03/29/2007 9:58:25 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Mo1

"Is DiFi dirty?"


Dirty Dirty girl!


5 posted on 03/29/2007 10:00:19 PM PDT by Grunthor (Outside a dog a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read.)
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To: Mo1

Of course she is; she's a Dimmycrap.


6 posted on 03/29/2007 10:28:40 PM PDT by TBP
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To: Mo1
I've heard of her husband's connections before and now it's
starting to smell more and more like Murtha's brother's
situation.

Don't count on Keith Overbite to bring this to anyone's
attention as last night he and was still talking about
Plame being thrown "under the bus".

The Dems won the election through sheer media propaganda.
....JJ61

7 posted on 03/29/2007 11:50:45 PM PDT by JerseyJohn61 (Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)
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To: Mo1
Cheney's ties to Halliburton are eeevil but Feinswine's ties to Perini and URS aren't because she's a liberal DemocRAT.
8 posted on 03/29/2007 11:52:33 PM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4 (Civilian Irregular Information Defense Group -- Distributed IO and counter-PsyOps)
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To: Mo1

Amazing how this story has completely crowded out all other stories in the news, huh? ;)


9 posted on 03/29/2007 11:58:13 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Anti-socialist Bostonian, Anti-Illegal Immigration Bush supporter, Pro-Life Atheist)
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To: Mo1
Oh.... If this were only a Republican. There would be hell to pay, and said Republican would already have had to tender their resignation from the Senate.

But since it's a bigwig democrat, there will only be a chorus of crickets from the MSM, and the pansy ass pubbies.

If you don't believe me, look up Sandy Berger.

10 posted on 03/30/2007 12:03:26 AM PDT by Bullish ( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
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To: Cannoneer No. 4
Cheney's ties to Halliburton are eeevil but Feinswine's ties to Perini and URS aren't because she's a liberal DemocRAT

That about sums it up

11 posted on 03/30/2007 4:20:37 AM PDT by Mo1 ( http://www.gohunter08.com)
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To: Mo1

I guess we're going to have to get used to the double standard because I don't see one bit of activism going on around FR with regard to issues like this. For that matter, I don't see activism or any PR going on with Congressional Republicans.


12 posted on 03/30/2007 5:02:42 AM PDT by Peach (The Clinton's' pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: Mo1

I dunno...let's ask the guy who launched her political career the day he shot Harvey Milk.


13 posted on 03/30/2007 5:05:52 AM PDT by Doohickey (Rudolph Giuliani: metro-American)
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To: Peach

This was my favorite part of Michelle's post yesterday:

"The NYTimes is demanding an investigation. Arianna Huffington has launched ads lambasting Feinstein. The left-wing blogosphere is an uproar over Feinstein's war profiteering.

Kidding."


14 posted on 03/30/2007 8:16:13 AM PDT by casino66 ("We'll succeed," Bush added, "unless we quit.")
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