US Government on Oversight: WJ

[malaise]

Senator Clair Mccaskill asked some serious questions to Admiral Mullen this week

Background here:
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=2937641&C=america
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When asked about waste and abuse by military contractors in Iraq, U.S. Adm. Michael Mullen told Sen. Claire McCaskill, “You know more about it than I do.”
And when informed that a military commander in Iraq had told McCaskill he would pay $15 million for $10 million worth of goods if it meant he could get them faster, Mullen responded, “That a warfighter would respond that way is not a surprise to me – and I’m not sure it’s not the right answer.”
It wasn’t the right answer for McCaskill, D-Mo., who has been building a reputation as a bulldog on contracting abuses in the seven months she has been in the U.S. Senate.
“It bothers me that I know more about this than you do,” McCaskill told Mullen, who was called before the Senate Armed Services Committee July 31 to be confirmed as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
McCaskill said she spent six months studying wartime contracting in Iraq and concluded that too often “their legal status is murky and accountability is AWOL,” or absent without leave in military vernacular.
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Interesting calls

[Sherman A1]

1. Go Claire!

That's my Senator..... I hope she can cut through just some of the Pentagon Waste. Hell, we might even be able to pay for a few bridge updates or health care if she is able to do so.

Nice to have a Senator with some experience as an Auditor looking into the black hole that is our Military - Industrial Complex.


:bounce: :woohoo:

[malaise]

2. Poor Brian does not know about

Code Pink. He can't read all their signs. Bravo Code Pink.

His question is should these protesters be stopped?

[KharmaTrain]

3. You Can See Him Doing The Slow Burn

Ya gotta love the questions that he's already determined the answer...ahhh...the fun of Fascist Friday.

FWIW...Code Pink should send Brian a nice floral bouquet for the free publicity.

[malaise]

4. First amendment rights

Fugg Brian!

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5. He's Pissed That They're "Jobbing" His Network

Here's a guy who not only ran an interview sliming Michael Moore...not once, but had to rerun it...and he did the interview. He sure didn't seem pissed when his network is used as AEI-TV. I'm no big Code Pink fan, but I admire their determination and their right to speak up and out...speak truth to power! Yep, Fugg him (you're being nice...LOL)