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With all the "investigations" and blame.. why is there no news about Diane Feinstein resigning her position?

SEN. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the details of military construction, even micromanaging one project at the level of its sewer design. She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects, some of which were contracted to her husband's companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp. The MILCON subcommittee is not only in charge of supervising military construction, it also oversees "quality of life" issues for veterans, which includes building housing for military families and operating hospitals and clinics for wounded soldiers. Perhaps Feinstein is trying to disassociate herself from MILCON's incredible failure to provide decent medical care for wounded soldiers. Two years ago, before the Washington Post became belatedly involved, the online magazine Salon.com exposed the horrors of deficient medical care for Iraq war veterans. While leading While leading MILCON, Feinstein had ample warning of the medical-care meltdown. But she was not proactive on veteran's affairs. Feinstein abandoned MILCON as her ethical problems were surfacing in the media, and as it was becoming clear that her subcommittee left grievously wounded veterans to rot while her family was profiting from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. It turns out that Blum also holds large investments in companies that were selling medical equipment and supplies and real estate leases—often without the benefit of competitive bidding—to the Department of Veterans Affairs, even as the system of medical care for veterans collapsed on his wife's watch. As of December 2006, according to SEC filings and www.fedspending.org, three corporations in which Blum's financial entities own a total of $1 billion in stock won considerable favor from the budgets of the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs: Boston Scientific Corporation: $17.8 million for medical equipment and supplies; 85 percent of contracts awarded without benefit of competition. Kinetic Concepts Inc.: $12 million, medical equipment and supplies; 28 percent noncompetitively awarded. CB Richard Ellis: The Blum-controlled international real estate firm holds congressionally funded contracts to lease office space to the Department of Veterans Affairs. It also is involved in redeveloping military bases turned over to the private sector. You would think that, considering all the money Feinstein's family has pocketed by waging global warfare while ignoring the plight of wounded American soldiers, she would show a smidgeon of shame and resign from the entire Senate, not just a subcommittee. Conversely, you'd think she might stick around MILCON to try and fix the medical-care disaster she helped to engineer for the vets who were suckered into fighting her and Bush's panoply of unjust wars

Public Comments

1. Everyone nows that feinstein is a joke and should resign.
2. Thanks for that, what was your source. You do know this will be buried in the news, and may in fact never be mentioned. Ah, to culture of corruption continues. I certainly hope that all of those who voted the socialists into power are happy and gleeful that Feinstein and her hubby were able to rape and pillage the country.
3. Maybe her actions might draw more attention if we didn't have a Presidential administration and leaders of the GOP that do things like: - blowing the cover of a CIA agent as political retribution - fixing military intelligence to support a useless war - giving political access to Jack Abromoff for bribes - funnelling billions of dollars to the Vice President's business cronies - supporting torture, illegal spying on Americans, and illegally kidnapping people in foreign countries so that they can be sent to other countries and tortured. - shooting their own friends in the face with a shotgun while hunting. Kind of hard for corruption to get noticed these days with all of that going on!
4. Feinkenstein Resigned??? Excellent!! Now if the rest of her libtard comrades would quit or resign, this country would get back on the RIGHT track and we could be proud of America again. She probably got out before the sky fell on her for her sins against Democracy. She's one of the liberal media's darlings and they wouldn't think of giving her any bad press, the dirty bastards! They reserve that for the undeserving good guys. liberals have no shame. remorse, or souls and need to be voted out of all high offices. They just want to get filthy rich at our expense while we suffer indignations and abuse at their hands. It's their "Do as I say, not as I do" attitude that's ruining this country. I'm not surprized the media bums would not publicize this gaffe.
5. Even the Democratic groupies are having a hard time stomaching this one (see link below).