Senators: Reopen AF Contract Probe

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Senators: Reopen AF Contract Probe
April 25, 2008
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Two key senators have asked the Pentagon to reopen the investigation into Air Force officials' efforts to influence the award of a $50 million contract, urging investigators to focus on the actions of key service leaders, The Associated Press has learned.

The chairman and the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee have asked the Defense Department's inspector general to determine if there were any criminal or ethical violations or failures of leadership, particularly by senior Air Force officials.

Panel chairman Carl Levin of Michigan and Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, in a letter dated April 21 and obtained by the AP on April 24, said the investigation raised serious questions about the actions of senior Air Force officials.

Levin and McCain's letter does not name Gen. Michael Moseley, the Air Force chief of staff, who was linked to the scandal, though not directly blamed.

Additionally, another committee member, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., spoke to Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne on April 24 to express her anger that Moseley was not reprimanded for his involvement in the contract issue.


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