The Daily Background

You already know my stance on contractors doing governmental or army jobs. And you certainly already know how I feel about the government spying on liberals and liberal groups because of their moral and political beliefs. And I’ll be damned if you don’t already know my stance on misuse of tax money. So you can probably predict my reaction to this:

A Pentagon intelligence agency that kept files on American anti-war activists hired one of the contractors who bribed former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, R-Calif., to help it collect data on houses of worship, schools, power plants and other locations in the United States.

MZM Inc., headed by Mitchell Wade, also received three contracts totaling more than $250,000 to provide unspecified “intelligence services” to the White House, according to documents obtained by Knight Ridder. The White House didn’t respond to an inquiry about what those intelligence services entailed.

Wade of course went down with Cunningham, who was recently convicted bribery to get those exact contracts (Cunningham is now serving 8 years and change, Wade has pleaded guilty and could be facing up to 20 years for the bribery). Now the question is of course– and this is the kicker– are those contracts going to be recalled? It would really be a testement to the corruption of the Administration if they were able to keep their bribe-obtained contracts.

Full article.

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