Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Politicians - Diane Feinstein
I'm thinking the media is conveniently asleep on this one?...
At theHill.com, David Keene uses the word " shenanigans"
"And the director of the Project on Government Oversight who examined the evidence of wrongdoing assembled by California writer Peter Byrne told him that 'the paper trail showing Senator Feinstein’s conflict of interest is irrefutable.'
It may be irrefutable, but she almost got away without anyone even knowing what she was up to. Her colleagues on the subcommittee, for example, had no reason even to suspect that she knew what companies might benefit from her decisions because that information is routinely withheld to avoid favoritism. What they didn’t know was that her chief legal adviser, who also happened to be a business partner of her husband’s and the vice chairman of one of the companies involved, was secretly forwarding her lists of projects and appropriation requests that were coming before the committee and in which she and her husband had an interest — information that has only come to light recently as a result of the efforts of several California investigative reporters."
