Senate Ethics Committee AWOL? Senator Dianne Feinstein

Hi folks, it turns out that this is not even a new story. Metroactive originally published their story the week of January 24-30, 2007. Their leading paragraph:

“In the November 2006 election, the voters demanded congressional ethics reform. And so, the newly appointed chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is now duly in charge of regulating the ethical behavior of her colleagues.”

Hmmm…I guess we know one reason that there has been no ethics investigation in the intervening months since this story first became public. I wonder if it is a coincidence that Lady DiFi (or is that DEFY) was appointed to chair the Senate Rules Committee. Do ya think maybe?

Hamlet isn’t the only one smelling something fishy in Denmark…or is that DEM-mark?

Well the silence continues in the Democrat Controlled Mainstream Media. Still no major news outlet…except of course for FoxNews and the “Beltway insider’s” weekly,

“TheHill.com - Feinstein’s Cardinal shenanigans

By David Keene
April 30, 2007

…In other words, it appears Sen. Feinstein was up to her ears in the same sort of shenanigans that landed California Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R) in the slammer. Indeed, it may be that the primary difference between the two is basically that Cunningham was a minor leaguer and a lot dumber than his state’s senior senator.

Melanie Sloan, the executive director of Citizens for Responsible Ethics in Washington, or CREW, usually focuses on the ethical lapses of Republicans and conservatives, but even she is appalled at the way Sen. Feinstein has abused her position.

Sloan told a California reporter earlier this month that while”there are a number of members of Congress with conflicts of interest … because of the amount of money involved, Feinstein’s conflict of interest is an order of magnitude greater than those conflicts.”

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.”

I told you it was way bigger than the Duke Cunningham scandal.

People this cover-up is massive in scope and it appears that Republicans in Congress are so afraid of the Democrats and their propaganda corps in the MSM, that they are either unable or unwilling to expend the political capital necessary to expose this outrage.

It is time for the people, like you Dear Reader, to pick up your telephones, your ink-pens, or your e-mail and write to your Congressmen and Senators. This discrepancy in treatment and this cover-up must not be allowed to occur. If a genuine, certified WAR HERO can be sentenced to 8 years for his sins, then this frightful Marxist harridan must not be allowed to avoid punishment.

Dianne Feinstein is an affront to all who believe in the Constitution and those who believe that government corruption is wrong and should be punished. She has led the battle to disarm the American citizens. She has been a tireless champion for the gun-confiscation crowd.

Senator DiFi has also been one of the loudest and most self-righteous of the inquisitors at the Stalinist Spanish...err…Senate Inquisition of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in their desperate search for anything unethical, or illegal, or just plain impolite in the firings of the 8 U.S. Attorneys.

There can be little wonder that there is not Senate Ethics Committee Investigation pending, because of her afore-mentioned appointment as Chair of the Senate Rules Committee…allow me to rephrase that, there will be no investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee, not by the House Appropriations committee, nor by any other Congressional committee with jurisdiction.

At least now we know why the Democrats were so upset with the “Republican Culture of Corruption.” They were embarrassed by the miniscule size of the scandals of which those few Republicans were guilty. I mean where was their sense of pride?

It takes a Democrat to make a really good scandal, one worth reporting and investigating…except this time their has been no investigating…by anyone in the MSM or in Congress.

Today I have searched:

• CBSNews.com
• ABCNews.com
• NBC.com
• MSNBC.com
• CNN.com
• Yahoo News
• Google News

Well “Surprise Surprise!” If you do a search for “Feinstein scandal” under Google’s News search, you will find the story, but not on any major media outlet.

We find NewBuster.com has a story about it, KXMB in Bismarck, S.D. has an article on their webpage, Human Events has a story about it, but most results from such a search connect you to stories concerning either Karl Rove’s e-mail non-scandal, scandal, or the Alberto Gonzales non-scandal, scandal.

Yep once more seems as though the conspiracy of silence continues throughout the “non-biased mainstream media (or as we know it, the propaganda wing of the Democrat Party).

Well, here’s another surprise; Antiwar.com has been following this story at least since this article of March 1, 2006”

The Democrats' Daddy Warbucks - by Joshua Frank

Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum, could well be called the Democrats' Daddy Warbucks. He's scored bundles from war contracts. He has recently purchased a $16.5 million crib in San Francisco and along with his wife has handed hundreds of thousands of dollars over to fellow Democrats. Since the 2000 election cycle, Blum has contributed over $75,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Committee, and thousands more to individual Democrats, including John Kerry, Robert Byrd, Joe Lieberman, Ted Kennedy, and Barbara Boxer.
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Here are the basics to date: Blum currently holds over 111,000 shares of stock in URS Corporation, which is now one of the top defense contractors in the United States. Blum is an acting director of URS, which bought EG&G, a leading provider of technical services and management to the U.S. military, from The Carlyle Group in 2002. Carlyle's trusty advisers, past and present, include former President George H.W. Bush, James Baker, and ex-SEC Commissioner Arthur Levitt, among other prominent neoconservatives and Washington power brokers.

URS and Blum have since banked on the Iraq war, scoring a phat $600 million contract through EG&G. As a result, URS has seen its stock price more than triple since the war began in March 2003. Blum has cashed in over $2 million on this venture alone and another $100 million for his investment firm.

Hey…I remember the “Carlyle Group.” Aren’t they the nefarious and legendary “corrupt Republican Multi-national, control everything organization” which Liberals and conspiracy moonbats claim as one of THE organizations? You know THOSE organizations like:

• The Illuminati
• The Free-Masons
• Skull and Bones
• The Bilderberger Group
• The Bush Crime Family
• The British Royal Family
• AIPAC
• The Martians…etc. etc,..ad nauseum

Funny how these things keep popping up. Almost like…a conspiracy…hmm I wonder…

Crikey Mate, I’m beginning to sound like one of those conspiracy freaks over at http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ or http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/ (both are worth visiting anytime you want a good laugh.

Anyway, I’ll continue to “beat the bushes” on this scandal. It is just too juicy and too big to ignore. I am astounded that, even given the profound Leftward bias of the reporters of the MSM, none of them has picked it up. This has got to be a ticket to fame and glory for any reporter gutsy enough to pursue it…well that or the grave…kind of like Vince Foster, right Hillary?

Long Live This American Republic!!

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