Originally Posted by dc_dux

Its clear she had a conflict of interest but its hard for me to understand how she had any control over contracts approved by the Milcom subcommittee when she was in the minority from 2001 to 2005.

She should have abstained from any votes in which her husband''s company may have been a beneficiary. But, the Senate Ethics Committee under the Repubs saw no reason to initiate an ethics investigation against her.

So... ace...do you have any links that show how she "may have directed" any decisions by the subcommittee or that she was "up to her ears in the same sort of shenanigans that landed California Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (he took $1 million in bribes) in the slammer"?

Originally Posted by willravel

Old news, and something this liberal didn't ignore. She resigned back in March from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee as there was suspected of allowing her husband's company to profit from her position (the 'vet-care' scandal). Has Dick Cheney resigned from his role as Vice President? Has he taken himself from governmental decision making around Haliburton? No? Think about that.

All this tells us is that we need legislation that prevents conflicts of interest like these. Whether they're guilty or not (Feinstein was probably not, Cheney probably is), the opportunity for corruption should be taken away.