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GOP calls for ethics investigation into Iraq war critic

11/18/2005 @ 9:07 pm

Filed by RAW STORY

Republican lawmakers say that ties between Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) and his brother’s lobbying firm, KSA Consulting, may warrant investigation by the House ethics committee, ROLL CALL reports Friday. Excerpts.

The calls come as Murtha, a former Marine and pro-military Democrat, has made headlines this week by coming out in support of a rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

According to a June 13 article in The Los Angeles Times, the fiscal 2005 defense appropriations bill included more than $20 million in funding for at least 10 companies for whom KSA lobbied. Carmen Scialabba, a longtime Murtha aide, works at KSA as well.

KSA directly lobbied Murtha’s office on behalf of seven companies, and a Murtha aide told a defense contractor that it should retain KSA to represent it, according to the LA Times.

- Move over Kerry and Cleland

...and for your amusement on this anniversary of the start of the Nuremberg Trials:

So you want details about who lied?

"Iraq On The Record: The Bush Administration's Public Statements On Iraq," [PDF] prepared by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform -- Minority Staff Special Investigations Division, March 16, 2004.

Agi T. Prop says it's all deferred success.