Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Friday, November 03, 2006
Ooops
I, ... It .... ah .... it just slipped!
The NYT fronts word of a provision tucked inside a military authorization bill that orders the termination of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. Now lawmakers from both parties are saying they did not realize the provision was slipped in and want to reverse the decision.
Gee. I wonder how that got in there? I guess that whole "pass legislation without reading it thing" isn't such a good idea? Or is it?

UPDATE: Ok, now we find out. Turns out it was a staffer of Wacko-Would-Be-Preznit Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Idiotland) who added this little provision:
As Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Hunter is one of the largest beneficiaries of contributions from the very defense contractors who are the target of the investigative agency his staff secretly caused to be abolished. As the Times reports: "Three of the companies that have been a particular focus of Mr. Bowen’s investigations [are] Halliburton, Parsons and Bechtel . . . ."
Uh oh. That's seems awfully fishy to me. That is, until I read this reassuring statement:
"Mr. Holly, who is the House Armed Services spokesman as well as a member of Mr. Hunter’s staff, said that politics played no role and that there had been no direction from the administration or lobbying from the companies whose work in Iraq Mr. Bowen’s office has severely critiqued."
Oh. Ok. That clears it up.

Nothing to see here. Move along ......

Written at 10:04 AM by Greyhair.
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