{"id":68195,"date":"2016-09-28T15:12:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T19:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68195"},"modified":"2016-09-28T15:12:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T19:12:33","slug":"mccaskill-questions-bobecks-relationship-with-contractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68195","title":{"rendered":"McCaskill questions Bobeck&#8217;s relationship with contractor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/senator-seeking-investigation-into-general\/ar-BBwI6na?ocid=spartanntp\">MSN<\/a> which reports that Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill is calling for an investigation into relationships between defense officials and contractors. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68134\">We talked about General Michael Bobeck<\/a> the other day when he was relieved from his command for having an extramarital playmate and for taking favors from a contractor. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said she had serious questions about Bobeck&#8217;s relationship with Joseph Ferreira, an official with Peduzzi Associates, a lobbying and consulting firm that works for Sikorsky, the maker of the helicopters used by the National Guard air units that Bobeck worked for. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen far too often the effects of the revolving door between the military and contractors to believe that this is simply a coincidence,&#8221; McCaskill wrote in her letter to acting Pentagon Inspector General Glenn Fine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess McCaskill is worried that flag officers will be cutting into her action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom sends us a link to MSN which reports that Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill is calling &hellip; <a title=\"McCaskill questions Bobeck&#8217;s relationship with contractor\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68195\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McCaskill questions Bobeck&#8217;s relationship with contractor<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}