Republican = Corruption
Abel Malcolm
Pentagon. This is the same woman that went after Clinton during the
Whitewater thing, with extreme malice. Good to know these are the
people the president surrounds himself with.
This Investigation body has been a non-partisan agency in the past.
It is an exceptionally important agency, because it investigates
fraud. Now, it has been turned into a partisan agency by the Bushies,
with Lewis in there, she is being entrusted to "investigate"
Halliburton.
Republicans are saying that she was hired for her "effective track
record". What effective track record!? She wasted tens of millions
of our tax dollars to investigate/harrass Bill Clinton and the people
associated with him, and she came up completely empty. Not one thing
was proven. She came up with NOTHING! Now the Republicans are saying
she can be trusted to investigate Halliburton, because she's
"effective". Go figure.
Abel Malcolm
http://www.costofwar.com
From MSNBC.com
The Bush administration has quietly installed a surprising figure in a
high-level Pentagon post: L. Jean Lewis, the former federal fraud
investigator who kicked up major controversy in the '90s over her
allegations about the Clintons' Whitewater dealings.
ALTHOUGH THERE'S BEEN no public announcement of her return to
government, Lewis has been given a $118,000-a-year job as chief of
staff in the traditionally nonpartisan Defense Department's inspector
general office. With 1,240 employees and a budget of $160 million,
this office is the largest of its kind in the government. It
investigates fraud and audits Pentagon contracts, including the
billions of dollars being awarded in Iraq to companies like
Halliburton and Bechtel.
As an investigator for the now defunct Resolution Trust Corp. in 1993,
Lewis drafted a criminal referral alleging illegal Whitewater dealings
that eventually became the basis for Ken Starr's probe. Republicans
praised Lewis as a whistle-blower; Democrats blasted her as a
partisan. (In a private letter on her computer, she once called Bill
Clinton a "lying bastard.")
Lewis told NEWSWEEK she got her new job last year after interviewing
with top administration officials at Defense. Although they were
aware of her background, she says, "I would prefer to think it was my
ability and skills they were interested in."
By Michael Isikoff
DPR
news:f1fd22d4.03092...@posting.google.com...
> L. Jean Lewis has been appointed by Bush to investigate fraud in the
> Pentagon.
So.
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the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom."
--Alexis de Toqueville
Docky Wocky
"L. Jean Lewis has been appointed by Bush to investigate fraud in the
Pentagon. This is the same woman that went after Clinton during the
Whitewater thing, with extreme malice..."
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Personally, I would never associate Lewis with what you call "extreme
malice."
In spite of all the hype, the bottom line is, she failed to bury Clinton, so
that makes her just another blob federal employee who's real talent is
sucking on the public teat.