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To: American Spirit who wrote (115674)	2/26/2008 8:27:13 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

BREAKING NEWS: The Senator Was Sleeping With The Lobbyist By Lord_Vegas The Hinzsight Report has uncovered an anonymous source which has provided irrefutable evidence that a US Senator with presidential aspirations has been sleeping with a lobbyist who had business before that senator’s committee. Both the senator and the lobbyist are married. This is a clear ethics violation at the least, and raises serious questions as to whether federal laws have been broken. As an influential member of the Senate Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee, Senator Diane Feinstein routinely reviewed and accepted contracts from Perini Corp. and URS Corporation, both owned by Richard C. Blum, a man with whom she was sleeping on a regular basis. While carrying on this personal relationship with Blum, Feinstein was responsible for approving billions of dollars of military construction contracts for the two companies. It is known that Blum personally profited millions of dollars from those contracts, and Feinstein, under California law, is reported to have shared equally in those profits. Read on . . . Feinstein has since removed herself from the MILCON subcommittee citing her desire to remove any appearance of impropriety. Critics have noted that her resignation from the committee as, now a moot point, as Blum divested himself of his interests in the military construction company in 2005. He still, on the other hand, retains interest in companies which provide medical care for wounded service members. The quality of that care has been called into question in recent months. "Feinstein abandoned MILCON as her ethical problems were surfacing in the media, and as it was becoming clear that her subcommittee left grievously wounded veterans to rot while her family was profiting from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. It turns out that Blum also holds large investments in companies that were selling medical equipment and supplies and real estate leases ? often without the benefit of competitive bidding ? to the Department of Veterans Affairs, even as the system of medical care for veterans collapsed on his wife's watch." Alright, at this point, the observant reader will have noted that this is neither an exclusive, nor a recent report. Nor is it news that Senator Diane Feinstein is sleeping with her husband, Richard Blum. However, the salacious nature of the headline, and the suggestion of impropriety is every bit as valid as the charges leveled at Senator John McCain – if not more so, since the evidence against Senator Feinstein is actually proven, and on the record – and not merely innuendo and unsupported anonymous sources. This piece was originally posted at The Hinzsight Report hinzsightreport.com. Message 24343658