Two things:
1) Several times I have copied and pasted articles from the WP. Each time, the same bit is included (seen below) - House Majority Leader Tom Delay is indicted. It is listed under News Alert. When you click on it, an article from 2005 opens up with details of the indictment (which is not a conviction, it is simply a list of claimed violations).
WHY is this always appearing? Why has it appeared twice when I have copied and pasted? Why isn't an article titled: President Clinton impeached, on the banner for news alert? Makes you wonder, it does me.
2) There has been recent clamoring about fraud and waste in contracts given in Iraq. Congress is holding hearings, and while millions are not very much ... it is the principle isn't it. So why isn't Murtha and his son and their dealings all over the front pages?
Amazing. They lie and cheat and steal and because the media (in large part) are so caught up in the idea of liberals in charge again, they ignore and overlook. Many members of the elitist media want their ideology to prevail, to succeed, and they will do anything to ensure it does prevail, even cover up and ignore stories that, were they about Republicans three years ago, would be splashed all over the papers, hearings would be held, and indictments handed down.
Intellectual dishonesty - par for their course.
News Alert House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Indicted -->
Murtha's Nephew Got Defense Contracts
Millions in Work Came Without Competition
By Carol D. Leonnig and Alice Crites
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
The headquarters of Murtech, in a low-slung, bland building in a Glen Burnie business park, has its blinds drawn tight and few signs of life. On several days of visits, a handful of cars sit in the parking lot, and no trucks arrive at the 10 loading bays at the back of the building.
Yet last year, Murtech received $4 million in Pentagon work, all of it without competition, for a variety of warehousing and engineering services. With its long corridor of sparsely occupied offices and an unmanned reception area, Murtech's most striking feature is its owner -- Robert C. Murtha Jr., 49. He is the nephew of Rep. John P. Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who has significant sway over the Defense Department's spending as chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee.
Robert Murtha said he is not at liberty to discuss in detail what his company does, but for four years it has subsisted on defense contracts, according to records and interviews. He said Murtech's 17 employees "provide necessary logistical support" to Pentagon testing programs that focus on detecting chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats, "and that's about as far as I feel comfortable going." Giving more details could provide important clues to terrorist plotters, he said.
Murtha said he does not advertise being the nephew of John Murtha and considers it "unfortunate" that some will unfairly assume Murtech received its federal contracts because of his uncle's influence at the Pentagon.
[To read the rest of the article, click on the title link]
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