Lieberman Has No Plans To Investigate Blackwater, Corrupt Iraq Contractors

Joe Lieberman (I-CT), who chairs the Senate committee responsible for government oversight, says he has no plans to investigate Blackwater and other Iraq war contractors accused of potentially criminal wrongdoing. Roll Call reports (sub req'd):

Though Lieberman said he gets "angry when I hear about fraud or corruption in the spending of American dollars," he said he in part chooses what to have hearings on by "watching who else is doing what," noting that [House oversight chairman Henry] Waxman has held several hearings on Iraq oversight, as have the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees.

"You've got to set your own priorities, and it was clear to me that other committees were going to pick this up," said Lieberman.

Roll Call notes that on the day Iraq revoked Blackwater's license after the shooting of 17 civilians, Waxman immediately announced hearings on private security contractors. Lieberman "announced two firefighting grants for the towns of Bolton and Willington in his home state."

Lieberman has held only one hearing all year on "reconstruction challenges in both Iraq and Afghanistan," compared to eight hearings on Iraq and contracting abuses in the House.

Comments

[cynara]

Is it possible to impeach Senators in Connecticut?

[angryruth]

only thing that comes to mind about holy joe is
DUAL LOYALTY!!

[hugs4u]

NO, he has only one loyalty and it isn't the United States.

[ljsfolly]

Lieberman turned a long time ago. He is as republican as all the hate spouting group that is after the Frost family. He is part of the group defending bush/cheney no matter what they do. He has a blood thirst unrivaled by many other republicans. One has to wonder where and why he turned from a thoughtful man into what he has become. I have to be glad for one thing he didn't become vice president as he might have and I would like to ask Gore what he thinks about the man today.

[BetterDeadthanRedState]

He's too busy investigating the inside of his ass.

[NoFactsJustTruth]

LIEberman's position as chair of 'oversight' was the Senate democraps echoing Speaker pelosi's "...off the table".

Having kept his Connecticut seat AS A REPUBLISCUM, with republiscum votes, of course he would not investigate the administration.

THIS democrap party HAS NO INTEREST in changing how business has been or is being conducted in OUR government. If it did, Senator Leahy would have been interested in prosecuting ILLEGAL wiretaps and obstruction of justice by the Attorney General in the U.S. Attorney firings, he is not.


Welcome to the one-party K-Street system of government, where the MAJORITY DOES NOT MATTER, no matter who they vote for.
A system where 70% want their reprersentatives to end an illegal occupation FOR OIL, and THEIR democrap CONgress elected to do so tells them NO.

Remember to laugh when someone calls this a free democracy.

[kuulray]

These comments are a little on the vicious side, aren't they? Careful, people, lest you become that which you loath.
As for Lieberman, the man is a disgrace. But calling him nazi or other names doesn't help. An organized effort to remove him from office would. Or maybe the Dems could pull off a trade: Lieberman for Hagel.

[Tom95134]

I wouldn't call him a nazi. But I sure as hell would call him a "Kapo".

[RobertaInCT]

Liberman should have been striped of his status in the senate when he ran as an independent. Connecticut had better wakeup and deal with him before we find ourselves in Iran, which he's pushing for.

[ConcernedAboutRFuture]

CT is primarily made up of extremely wealthy people, very wealthy people and the poor ghetto dwellers..­.. kind of like what America will be in a few years.

[fact finder]

Face the facts, they all are in it for the MONEY, POWER AND CONTROL.

[hannitizer]

When I was a kid we had a word for guys like Lieberman who hid behind bullies and did their bidding. PUNKBAIT. Even his name reveals the liar he has become....­. LIEberman

[ZingoBonMot]

I said it before, and I'll say it again.
Will somebody please make sure Al Kader has a U.S. map so if they decide to attack the U.S. again they'll know exactly where Connecticutt is located?
(Oh, and "Lionel" [of Air America], how STUPID do YOU feel NOW for hanging up on me when I called Lieberman a 'spineless wimp' over two years ago, you putz?!)

[Qbear]

Thank God Al Gore never became President, and Lieberman never got any more power. War mongering f*cktard!

[Chocolate2008]

"chairs the Senate committee responsible for government oversight,"

That's the most disturbing part.

[wm1066]

When ever I have dreams about what the world would have been like with Gore Lieberman makes me run screaming into the night!

[kiafaret]

So true....wh­at was Gore thinking???

[thromulese]

Lie-berman was not the bush kisser when Mr. Gore chose him.

At the time though he was a moralizing republiCON wannabe who thought it was a disgrace for Clinton to have an affair with an adult while in the white house. But torture, and attacking a sovereign non-threatening country is fine and moral. It is what god would do.

He is not a fascist, he just acts like one.

[leftLibertarian]

Isn't it obvious? LIEberman is a war profiteer and will do anything to keep the war going because it's in his own intere$t.

[serialcoma]

Lieberman, a notorious traitor to his constiuents and the United States, has no plans to do anything that may interfere with his ability to suck on george bush's ass.

[OneVoiceInACrowd]

ahh your being polite...

[serialcoma]

A failing on my part...

[MoNut]

Quite possibly the most pitiful member of Senate.

His scared white stupid ass in Baghdad being swallowed by his kevlar vest as he tried to buy a Snickers was funny though. He may have even pee'd a little.

He's no warrior for America.

He's a warrior for Israel.

And should reside in Israel.

Alongside his other pilgrimmed warriors that continue to use America everytime they need a tissue.

[leftLibertarian]

Right on. Just another chicken hawk.
File under Coward along with Rush LimpDick, Dick 'less' Cheney and Sean Inanity.

[OneVoiceInACrowd]

Pack-o-lie'ey

[SaintN]

Thats not unusual considering the fact that Lieberman has not accepted (or publicly revealed) the reality that he's at heart a Nazi!

[MaryMullins]

EVeryone should watch this.

Very powerful..­.

Lets see how many open minds there are here.

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/174.html

[serialcoma]

Troll.

[davesideas]

no troll here...Mar­y Mullins is laying out a very plausable argument; the video is right on target and falls right where the liberal agenda should lie.
we'd better stop this freight train before it picks up any more speed; before we know it, outsourced mercenary armies will be the most visible ambassadors representing America...­that should be really upsetting to everyone, conservative or liberal

[serialcoma]

She's off topic, cuts/pastes this on almost every thread and advocates the murder of US troops... she is a troll.

[serialcoma]

btw.. I concur that we need to immediately stop the use of lil' georgie's mercenaries ...but, advocating murder as Mary does is not something we libs and progressives should be embracing.­. she just provides the reich wing with more examples of "the loony left". She does the cause more harm than good by calling our troops Nazis and wishing them harm.