Apparently Senator Dianne Feinstein has issues

“SEN. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum’s ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein.

As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the details of military construction, even micromanaging one project at the level of its sewer design. She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects, some of which were contracted to her husband’s companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp.

Perhaps she resigned from MILCON because she could not take the heat generated by Metro’s expose of her ethics (which was partially funded by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute). Or was her work on the subcommittee finished because Blum divested ownership of his military construction and advanced weapons manufacturing firms in late 2005?

The MILCON subcommittee is not only in charge of supervising military construction, it also oversees “quality of life” issues for veterans, which includes building housing for military families and operating hospitals and clinics for wounded soldiers. Perhaps Feinstein is trying to disassociate herself from MILCON’s incredible failure to provide decent medical care for wounded soldiers.

Two years ago, before the Washington Post became belatedly involved, the online magazine Salon.com exposed the horrors of deficient medical care for Iraq war veterans. While leading MILCON, Feinstein had ample warning of the medical-care meltdown. But she was not proactive on veteran’s affairs.

So where is Dana Priest and the rest of the MSM on this issue? (Crickets)

What about Chuck Schumer and Carl Levin, what say they now?

Levin had said before on the Walter Reed story:

“I believe this disgraceful neglect has been the result of two things. One is a lack of accountability,” said Levin, who is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “Almost no high-level people have ever been held accountable until Secretary Gates came along.”

Feinstein chimed in as well:

“He’s (Gates) taken action, and not only low-level people but high-level people have been replaced, and I think that’s welcome action.”

Agreed, so how about Senator Diane Feinstein? Shouldn’t she be held accountable, since it looks like she knew about problems in our veteran health care system two years ago?

Dr. Shackleford has more, as well as Hot Air.

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin ask there are not other committee assignments that Feinstein should resign from.