SENATORS CALL FOR COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE WARTIME CONTRACTING

[1776Forever]

Please support this critical investigation! With billions and billions going into private hands of Corporate pirates and the atrocities it has caused not only to our military but to the lives of all who it has raped it from!

http://webb.senate.gov/

FRESHMEN SENATORS CALL FOR COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE WARTIME CONTRACTING

Washington, DC - Senate Democratic freshmen today introduced a bill to establish an independent, bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting to investigate U.S. wartime contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Commission would significantly increase transparency and accountability and generate important solutions for systematic contracting problems, potentially saving taxpayers billions of dollars.
The Commission will study and investigate the impact of the government's growing reliance on civilian contractors to perform wartime functions. It will assess the extent of waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement of wartime contracts, and the extent to which those responsible have been held accountable.
The Commission will work in consultation with a newly-expanded Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) that will be authorized to audit defense wartime contracts for logistics support, as well as other federal agency contracts for security and intelligence functions in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. This collaborative effort will result in specific findings and recommendations to improve inter-agency wartime contracting.

[Captain Hilts]

1. We should call it the "Truman Committee" as in WWII. nt

[SpiralHawk]

2. "I insist on calling it the Cheney Commission." - Dickie 'Five Military Deferments' Cheney

"All proceedings and all results will be Top Secret because of Royal Republicon Executive Privilege, sneer. I am appointing Ken 'I fooled you' Lay as Head Commissioner, and Senator Diaper Vitter (R) as assistant. Sneer, sneer, Sneer."

- Dickie 'Five Military Deferments' Cheney

[Telly Savalas]

3. Why didn't they set this up back in January?

Let me guess...they didn't have the votes.

[1776Forever]

4. Cosponsors:List -

Cosponsors:

1. McCaskill

2. Klobuchar

3. Brown

4. Casey

5. Tester

6. Cardin

7. Whitehouse

8. Sanders

9. Durbin

10. Levin

11. Carper

12. Feinstein

13. Kerry

14. Johnson

15. Boxer

16. Obama

17. Leahy

18. Harkin

19. Stabenow

20. Dodd

21. Landrieu

[ellenfl]

5. biden? clinton? eom

[BreweryYardRat]

6. About TIME.

[ShortnFiery]

7. A Kick to help END War Profiteering!

:dem:

[AtomicKitten]

8. Fighting war-profiteering, Truman-style.

http://www.alternet.org/story/33131/

[UrbScotty]

9. This is good news!

[Divine Discontent]

10. K&R 3

God bless 'em! I am so amazed at how much of an impact Senator Webb has had already! woohoo!