The Washington Post’s Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and John Solomon report on Sen. John McCain’s ties to lobbyists–especially the 32 lobbyists who are designated fundraisers (the preferred term is bundlers, but there are more colorful terms available to us) for his campaign.
The story does a good job of identifying who these lobbyists are and what interests […]

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DLA Piper, the most generous backer of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, lobbies for defense giant Lockheed Martin on environmental issues (perchlorate, and this bill in particular), for First Kuwaiti
General Trading & Contracting Co. (which has been accused of paying kickbacks to a Kellogg Brown & Root manager), and a private citizen who, DLA Piper […]

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Actually, nothing to report. I called DIA, and they’re looking into the anomaly.
Meanwhile, one of the other agencies mentioned in that Secrecy News reported will withhold its contracts apparently hasn’t been reporting any; it does appear that there’s a $6.9 million anomaly for the Department of Defense Counterintelligence Field Activity…

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The graph above, from FedSpending.org, shows the total value of contracts for which the Defense Intelligence Agency was the funding agency (for a definition, see here) from 2000 through 2007 (for 2007, only partial data is available). In 2005, the total value of contracts is $471 million; every other year, the total ranges from a […]

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After it hired a lobbyist and its employees’ contributed to a member of Congress’ leadership political action committee, a Kentucky company saw its defense business quadruple thanks to earmarks.
Over the last three years, Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky., says he has earmarked at least $10.4 million in defense funds for Phoenix Products, Inc., a small […]

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