It seems the DOJ is less than eager to have their Contractors looked at very closely. This is not 'Business as Usual' as in the past efforts to ensure value for the dollar paid, have been encouraged and supported.

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Over the past 16 years, Grayson has litigated dozens of cases of contractor fraud. In many of these, he has found the Justice Department to be an ally in exposing wrongdoing. But in cases that involve the Iraq war, the D.O.J. has taken extraordinary steps to stand in his way. Behind its machinations, he believes, is a scandal of epic proportions—one that may come to haunt the legacy of the Bush administration long after it is gone.

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It seems that something is different now....how about this....

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Consider the case of Grayson's client Bud Conyers, a big, bearded 43-year-old who lives with his ex-wife and her nine children, four of them his, in Enid, Oklahoma. Conyers worked in Iraq as a driver for Kellogg, Brown & Root. Spun off by Halliburton as an independent concern in April, KBR is the world's fifth-largest construction company. Before the war started, the Pentagon awarded it two huge contracts: one, now terminated, to restore the Iraqi oil industry, and another, still in effect, to provide a wide array of logistical-support services to the U.S. military. In the midday heat of June 16, 2003, Conyers was summoned to fix a broken refrigerated truck—a "reefer," in contractor parlance—at Log Base Seitz, on the edge of Baghdad's airport. He and his colleagues had barely begun to inspect the sealed trailer when they found themselves reeling from a nauseating stench. The freezer was powered by the engine, and only after they got it running again, several hours later, did they dare open the doors.

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Read the article about how our billions of dollars are being spent to help the effort in Iraq...

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I don't know about the rest of you but this toasts my buns....

KJ

If it keeps my kids and grandkids from having to fight this, then spend all the money in print.

If you read it you'll find there is more to it than that...Our troops deserve better than this...

KJ

This is typical liberal propaganda. They have a million stories from their "drive-by" type reporters that are looking to break the next big "lewinsky, watergate" story.

This sounds like another Macbeth/Rather news article. Very irresponsible reporting.

Vanityfair, lol.

"A Scandal of Epic Proportions" just another in a long line...call it propaganda if you choose...it does sound like 'more of the same' due to the frequency...

KJ

They may not fight it, but they will pay the huge debt for many generations to come.

That's okay with me.

So its OK from your pub standpoint that taxes can be raised to pay for dubya's enormous debt.

If all this misappropriations and mis-managements are true, then why hasn't the DIMS started their investigations on these incidents? Where are the indictments that should be easily obtained. During the Clinton years, the corruption was real, it was proven through convictions, indictments, and resignations. The DIMocrat leadership hasn't been able to prove a thing. They have barely enough probable casue to even hold hearings on these issues. This type of rhetoric is just more of the same from the dims and liberal media.


Bottom line, if you want justice for these fake incidents being reported by these "drive by" reporters, then it's up to the DIMocrats to give it to you. If they fail to listen, if they fail to act on these accusations then there must be a reason. Like the lack of evidence of any real criminal act occuring, or the DIMS do not have th guts to stand up to the President. I think there's enough evidence to say that both reasons are probably true.

Why would you need to raise taxes? We could cut all entitlement programs instead. Or promote business growth which in turn means more business taxes taken in by the government.
Where do you think the budget surplus during the Clinton Administration came from? not higher taxes.

I don't fault you for immediately thinking higher taxes, its in your liberal blood.