Wanna smell something fishy?
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) — one of the five lawmakers known to be under investigation as part of the Cunningham scandal — is forcing the Pentagon to spend nearly $26 million on a giant killer catamaran, “despite strong objections from the Navy,” reports CongressDaily this morning.
That gets us to the water’s edge — but here’s the stinking fish smell, courtesy of POGO: The boat is made by Titan Corp., who uses as a lobbyist Letitia White, the former staffer for Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) who now works at the Copeland Lowery lobby firm. (White, Lewis, and the firm are all under scrutiny as part of the Cunningham investigation.)
Hunter has also pushed the Navy to buy $27 million worth of Titan missiles which don’t fly right, POGO says. I wonder if the feds are looking into this one?