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Quote by: MrV Do you know why she stepped down from the committee? |
Guilty conscience? I doubt its because this scandal would redirect her attention from more important matters on her other committees and senatorial duties. (even if it were true) I bet the committee voted her off the island.
Shes a "pro-war" minority democrat. You can have her.
But if you go after her you need to put a bead on Rumsfeld and all his murder for profit minions too.
The privatization of the MIC is more than a symptom.
Check out this expose of Blackwater USA
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Jeremy Scahill Goes Inside Blackwater, the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
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Once they took power again, Donald Rumsfeld, in one of his first major addresses, on September 10, 2001, stood before the gaggle of former corporate CEOs and executives that would make up the core of the civilian leadership of the Pentagon. He said, "I have no desire to attack the Pentagon; I want to liberate it. We need to save it from itself." What Rumsfeld meant was that he intended to enact nothing short of a revolution in military affairs.
That revolution brought increased use of special forces, increased privatization, and unprecedented use of private soldiers and other contractors in the waging of America's wars.
The day after he announced that initiative, of course, the 9/11 attacks happened. That gave the Administration a blank slate on which to paint its radical overhaul of how the United States wages its wars. Now, six years later, we have upwards of 100,000 private contractors in Iraq. They are subjected to no effective laws. There's almost no oversight. They operate with almost no transparency.
What's the difference between having covert operators in clandestine operations, and overt operators over which there's no oversight or transparency, or effective legal mechanisms to control what they're doing?
It really boils down to an absolute subversion of the nation-state and what little semblance of democracy we have in this country. The American people are against the war. But the Administration no longer needs to turn to the army of the country to fight its wars. It can now hire mercenaries from all over the world. So we really are seeing a subversion of democratic processes, a subversion of the electoral system in this country, and a waging of aggressive, offensive wars using private soldiers.
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... for undermining our good will by sending lawless mercenaries on armed robbery missions. In our name.
Harry Truman said "Wartime profiteering is TREASON" I agree.
Patrick Leahy introduced The War Profiteering Act in January.
Heres a liberal journalist who really tears into Feinstein:
Joshua Frank: the Mansion the War Bought
(includes a picture of her
$16M brand new mansion)