The trip that McDermott, Bonoir and another Rep took to Baghdad just before the war was paid for by a minion in Detroit? I think that was an Iraqi and had ties to Saddam. They also each got a $5,000 campaign donation which they returned after the story broke. Just wondering if they could be tied to this.
My hypothesis on this is that if we (the sheeple) were to see the depth of corruption in our government, with all the details, there would be, among others things, an immediate tax revolt and possible constitutional convention.
Many countries are far more open about it (and more superficial as well in how much they ask for), but the smoke of so many items that I have seen in my lifetime pretty much tells me that at, at least at the congressional level, the cabinet level, and the executive high bureaucrat level, it is the norm. This is without mentioning pardongate, the cox report, etc.
It is the human reality that governments invariably serve their own interests, including the personal interests of their more influential members. No getting around it.