Waxman Scores MSM Homerun with Hearings on Iraq Contracting (Halliburton/Blackwater)

[CorpGovActivist]

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- Dave

[ClassWarrior]

1. You mean a Corporate Media Homerun?

Cool.

Thanks for posting.

NGU.

[CorpGovActivist]

2. Waxman Showed - Once Again - That He Is Not Only Substantive...

... but that he has a true mastery of how to package the hearings to have the MSM salivating.

Remember the Big Tobacco execs (a.k.a. "The Seven Dwarves")?

No wonder those contractors' witnesses were stuttering today.

- Dave

[Blackhatjack]

3. I heard one Blackwater Official say they fulfilled their obligation to those contractors murdered...

I guess it is his opinion, but you are getting awful close to the "I do not believe nicotine is addictive" line the tobacco execs gave.

[CorpGovActivist]

6. The "Off Duty" Argument...

... didn't pass the sniff test, either.

- Dave

[caligirl]

4. R Darryl Issa is just an absolute puke face for saying this at the hearing

"Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said he did not believe the testimony was germane to a house committee scrutinizing U.S. companies with Iraq contracts."


This is the testimony he was speaking to.

The Blackwater attorney and several Republican lawmakers said the families were improperly trying to argue their case in a congressional hearing rather than a courtroom.

Helvenston-Wettengel said the security guards were denied armored vehicles, heavy weapons and maps for their convoy routes, and that the rear gunners were removed from vehicles to perform other duties.

"Blackwater gets paid for the number of warm bodies it can put on the ground in certain locations throughout the world," she said. "If some are killed, it replaces them at a moment's notice."

Helvenston-Wettengel said her son was alive when Iraqis tied him to his vehicle and dragged him through the streets. He eventually was decapitated.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/07/ap/politics/mainD8N54R505.shtml

[CorpGovActivist]

5. Issa's Contributors...

... http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_detail/C00350520/

- Dave

[caligirl]

9. I called his office and sweetly told the lady there, that since

Issa helped to send taxpayers to war it was insensitive and cold to say what he did with regard to a mother and taxpayer who lost her son in said war. the lady sounded embarrassed for Issa.

[CorpGovActivist]

10. Issa Should Be Defeated in '08

I hope the House Dems recruit a top-tier candidate to oust him.

- Dave

[porphyrian]

7. I'll kick that. - n/t

[DemReadingDU]

8. K&R

[faithnotgreed]

11. we should all be very grateful for rep waxman

there are maybe a couple people i trust in our govt and he is one of them

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12. K&R

[hootinholler]

13. Dunno about homerun...

But it's a solid hit, acceptable in any game. I'm expecting more of the same from Mr Waxman and doubt that I'll be disappointed.

-Hoot

[goforit]

14. May Waxman carry the torch and guide us out of darkness!