WarChronicle.com calls for Justice
Department
to investigate Murtha
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The Washington Post has
exposed how John Murtha passes taxpayer dollars to defense
industry contractors who pass the money right back to Murtha and his
associates.
Now we need to know the full extent of Murtha's crimes.
Every year, hundreds of millions of
dollars pass through John Murtha's hands every year--with no
accountability.
In 2005, John Murtha's Defense Appropriations Subcommittee earmarks
came to the staggering sum of $543,906,666.
Our troops are being robbed.
According to the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Common Sense:
Dozens of Pentagon readiness and maintenance accounts get cut in this
year's bill, with no explanation from the conferees as to why.
Personnel and operations and maintenance accounts were slashed by more
than $2.8 billion, including cuts to some of the least sexy defense
spending items, like food, repair items, training, spare parts,
weapons maintenance, and military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Since Congress can now move some of that funding into the
supplemental, they have the opportunity to put out an appropriations
bill that makes defense spending look smaller than it actually is, and
has plenty of room in it for members' earmarks.
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