By all accounts, Homeland Security Committee chair Sen. Joe Lieberman (CFL-CT) and ranking member Sen. Collins have one of the chummiest across-the-aisle relationships in Congress.
Which makes the following Lieberman swipe at Maine's junior senator all the more remarkable:
Where we've seen failure is when the US government failed to plan projects carefully and then failed to keep a close watch over contractors and now we've seen billions of dollars wasted--a cost measured not just in dollars but in the undermining of the overall US mission in these war-torn countries.(Emphasis added.)
Naturally, Lieberman wouldn't call it a swipe--he'd say he didn't mean to single out Collins.
But let's be clear: When people talk about dismal-to-non-existent oversight of Iraq spending over the last four years, they're talking, in no small part, about the ineffectual tenure of Sen. Susan Collins as Homeland Security Committee chair.
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