Posted by
Tzimisce on Thursday, March 29, 2007 1:32:45 PM
If you read the fringe news wires you'll notice another big story slipping through the gaps. Seems that California Senator Diana Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee which she was the ranking Democrat under pressure from the Senate Ethics committee. And it only took four years of Ethics committee pressure. She sat in that seat for four years (from 2001 to 2005.)
In her financial records, Feinstein failed to mention that her husband, Richard C. Blum is in charge of securing government contracts for the companies he represents (namely Perini and URS). There is no doubt at all that this a conflict of interest, but since Feinstein also sits on the Ethics Panel she could white wash her activity as well.
Officially Feinstein recused herself from activity dealing with Perini and URS contracts - but we all know how Democrats define things to favor themselves ("is" has a vague definition and "sex" excludes so many activities.) Feinstein should have left the building every time those contracts came up. But she didn't. Instead records show that at critical moments, Feinstein pressured the committee to award contracts when her pet companies were the obvious answers. Furthermore there is evidence that she might have known about the abuses at Walter Reed Hospital but ignored them.
There is no doubt that there are serious conflicts of interest going on in the Senator's background. Meanwhile the Senate continues to look in to non illegal, non unethical firings of US attorneys. But what else would you expect from brain dead leftists?