Byron Dorgan’s Contracting Fraud Crusade

The North Dakota senator has made investigating contractor corruption his mission, but will he succeed in creating a congressional committee devoted to it?

By Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium

In the wake of a recent Defense Department report from the Office of Inspector General that documents (PDF file) the improper accounting of billions of dollars in war contracting funds, the issue of waste, fraud, and abuse in Iraq is once again in the spotlight [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    Dorgan is one of the few in congress for whom I wish I could vote. He is consistent in his attempts to give us good national government based on a well reasoned understanding of events and conditions and how they affect ordinary people.

    United States Posted by whattheheck on May 31, 2008 at 9:04 AM

    Waste and abuse in a war time situation are so common that I wonder why there is not a permanent committee to investigate these situations.When ever there is millions and billions of dollars.There are going to be many people who don’t care about the fact the thousands of people are dieing.They just want the money.These people and companies need to be sent to jail,or disenfranchised so as to send the message that we find them and their actions despicable.These are the lowest of the low,who profit from others deaths.

    United States Posted by eddiemyboy1 on Jun 4, 2008 at 4:49 AM

    When Senator Harry Truman checked into the high rate of crashes in the B-26 (15 in a 30-day period) he was told by the head of the company producing it, Glenn Martin “We know the problem. The wings are too short, but we are meeting the government accepted specifications.”

    The plane had been nick named the Widowmaker.

    Truman was outraged and replied, “Our boys are getting killed flying these things and unless you correct the problem immediately I’ll have you jailed!” (I believe there were a few expletives here and there in his statement.)

    The plane was fixed and went on to serve us well in the war.

    United States Posted by whattheheck on Jun 5, 2008 at 6:52 AM

    I’m trying to establish the facts behind the popularly held belief that Senator Truman was in favor of scrapping the Martin B-26 Marauder medium bomber. Truman was chairman of the “Special Committee of the Senate to Investigate the National Defence Program, 1941-
    48”, which recommended the tapering of production of the B-26 in an additional report published by the committee in July 1943.

    Could “whattheheck” (or anyone else) provide the source of the quotations from Glenn Martin and Senator Truman in the posting of June 5th 2008 please ?

    United Kingdom Posted by SlartiBartFast29 on Jan 6, 2011 at 6:23 AM
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