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Keep digging, boys and girls.

Just. Follow. The. Money.

It does require some time ...and reading comprehension skills, but I have faith in you.

...but...uh...you won’t like what you’re going to find...you won’t like it at all.

...and pay more serious attention to such stories as these.

They give you clues...like bread crumbs...

HINT: Ike was right. ...and so was a certain Old Corps Marine Corps general.

Friday, Pemco amended its protest to specifically include questions about a possible conflict of interest involving Concurrent Technologies, the parent company of Commonwealth Research Institute, and Boeing, Reuters reported. The Air Force declined to comment on the cause or circumstances of Riechers’ death. Pemco and Boeing declined to comment on the matter. Pemco spokeswoman Doris Sewell also declined to comment on the GAO protest, saying details can be made public only by the agency.

http://www.al.com/business/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/business/1192522575165740.xml&coll=2

Commonwealth and its parent company, Concurrent Technologies Corp., have received hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and contracts from the Pentagon in recent years, The Post reported. The company, registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a nonprofit charity, also has received more than $100 million in earmarks from lawmakers.

http://www.al.com/news/press-register/index.ssf?/base/news/1192526223114750.xml&coll=3 "For two months, Riechers held the title of senior technical adviser and received about $13,400 a month at Commonwealth Research Institute, or CRI, a nonprofit firm in Johnstown, Pa., according to his resume. But during that time he actually worked for Sue C. Payton, assistant Air Force secretary for acquisition, on projects that had nothing to do with CRI, he said. http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003658688