Investigating War Profiteering, What A Concept!

Some more encouraging news from return-to-oversight department...

The Democrats plan to immediately press for legislation to reinstate a federal oversight agency, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, that was recently terminated by the Republicans because "the agency’s findings have consistently undermined Bush administration claims of widespread success in the reconstruction of Iraq." Transparency and accountability are coming back.

Says the NY Times, "The bills, the first of what are likely to be dozens of Democratic efforts to resurrect investigations of war profiteering and financial fraud in government contracting, could be introduced as early as Monday morning." Indeed, investigating the war profiteers should become a congressional priority in 2007.