Zam-Zam
Senator
and by better, I mean worse:
he inspector general for the General Services Administration said Monday that he is investigating possible bribery and kickbacks in the agency, as lawmakers accused the former GSA administrator of allowing a Las Vegas spending scandal to erode taxpayers’ trust in government.
Inspector General Brian Miller told a congressional committee scrutinizing an $823,000 Las Vegas conference that his office has asked the Justice Department to investigate “all sorts of improprieties” surrounding the 2010 event, “including bribes, including possible kickbacks.” He did not provide details.
Miller’s revelations of possible further misconduct by organizers of the four-day event, coming on the heels of a highly critical report, enraged Democrats and Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The lawmakers put GSA officials on the defensive during a tense four-hour hearing, with some Republicans loudly rebuking former administrator Martha N. Johnson and her colleagues.
Complete text: http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...acks/2012/04/16/gIQArrLbMT_story.html?hpid=z3
Along with "Fast and Furious", and the latest Secret Service mess, this administration has managed to have three major scandals going at the same time. While the President is not directly implicated in any of them, this is his watch. Apologists for the President may give him a pass on, well, everything, but this is not good, and he is the man who bears ultimate responsibility, like it or not. It comes with the job.
he inspector general for the General Services Administration said Monday that he is investigating possible bribery and kickbacks in the agency, as lawmakers accused the former GSA administrator of allowing a Las Vegas spending scandal to erode taxpayers’ trust in government.
Inspector General Brian Miller told a congressional committee scrutinizing an $823,000 Las Vegas conference that his office has asked the Justice Department to investigate “all sorts of improprieties” surrounding the 2010 event, “including bribes, including possible kickbacks.” He did not provide details.
Miller’s revelations of possible further misconduct by organizers of the four-day event, coming on the heels of a highly critical report, enraged Democrats and Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The lawmakers put GSA officials on the defensive during a tense four-hour hearing, with some Republicans loudly rebuking former administrator Martha N. Johnson and her colleagues.
Complete text: http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...acks/2012/04/16/gIQArrLbMT_story.html?hpid=z3
Along with "Fast and Furious", and the latest Secret Service mess, this administration has managed to have three major scandals going at the same time. While the President is not directly implicated in any of them, this is his watch. Apologists for the President may give him a pass on, well, everything, but this is not good, and he is the man who bears ultimate responsibility, like it or not. It comes with the job.
