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Corporate profiteering against Iraq vets?

Bush's nominee to head the Department of Veterans Affairs is the second to come from a private company that rakes in millions from VA contracts.
By Mark Benjamin

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  • Monday, November 19, 2007 07:08 PM

    the good news is..

    that this information is sometimes available. the bad news is, often it is not. maybe a nation that expects public activity to benefit the public, should require that all public activity take place in public.

    politicians and bureaucrats will explain the need for secrecy, "but they would say that, wouldn't they."

    i reckon anything you won't talk about in public, you are ashamed of doing, or avoiding jail.

    —al loomis Read al loomis's other letters

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