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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (210622)	7/3/2007 4:35:26 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

Dianne Feinsten is a WAR PROFITEER During much of the time that Sen. Dianne Feinstein was a leader on the Senate subcommittee overseeing the Pentagon’s military construction budget, her husband was heavily invested in companies holding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts generated by the subcommittee’s activities. The California Democrat denied that she helped her husband’s companies in any way with contracts and said the Senate ethics committee approved the arrangement. But she declined to discuss the value of the contracts or release the ethics ruling. A Copley News Service review found no evidence that Feinstein had intervened in any clearly meaningful way on behalf of the two companies. But it also found that the Senate appropriations and military procurement processes are so opaque there is little the public can do but trust Feinstein when she denies helping her husband’s companies. Secrecy and a lack of documentation make independent confirmation impossible. sondrak.com