Behind the Veil of a Terror War-"Millions-perhaps even billions in corrupt appropriations"

Psychological shock and awe …. distract the public, confuse the public, jingoize the public to pull some serious fast ones. And this public seems so burned out NOW for even appropriate outrage.

Behind the Veil of a Terror War
By: John Anderson Sunday April 5, 2009 4:04 pm

In my 2007 book Follow the Money, I asked the question: “What if the global war on terror had, at least in part, been the public face used to conceal millions—perhaps even billions—of dollars in corrupt appropriations being siphoned into top-secret contracts?”

When thinking about the “Duke” Cunningham affair and the subsequent dismissal of San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol Lam, the prosecutor in that case and in the related case of former number three official in the CIA, Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, I kept coming back to the same point: “What if a small coterie of Appropriations, Defense, Homeland Security, and Intelligence committee members were, in fact, on the take and engaged in a massive giveaway of federal funds?”

The hapless Randy Cunningham had been well-placed for such an endeavor. At the time of his forced resignation, the “Duke”—captain also of the royal yacht “Duke Stir”—stood sixteenth among Republican members of the House Appropriations Committee. More to the point, however, Cunningham was the third-ranking Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (“House Intel”) and a member in good standing of the single most powerful subcommittee in the House of Representatives: Defense Appropriations, with the power of the purse over not only the Department of Defense, but also CIA, NSA, and Homeland Security.

more here:
http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/05/behind-the-veil-of-a-terror-war/

Makes me wonder where all these concerned repugs so concerned about the budget now were when that was going on? :shrug:

Murtha. Visclosky.

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