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The legion of inside-the-Beltway lobbyists from the defense industry that attended a fundraiser for Rep John Murtha (D-PA) at the Ritz Carlton Hotel caught the eye of Sharyl Attkisson at CBS. Accordingly she filed a Follow the Money report on the Chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.
Murtha has extended $12m in earmarked funding to Concurrent Technologies Corporation, a not-for-profit organization in his hometown whose mission includes helping other organizations apply for federal funds. CTC in turn pays The PMA Group, a lobbying firm run by a former Murtha staffer. Murtha has earmarked funds for the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure. Attkisson reported that some of Murtha's critics suspect that CICI does not exist. Murtha also supports his hometown's National Drug Intelligence Center even though the White House wants it closed because it duplicates the work of a different facility. Murtha, marveled Attkisson, has "mastered" the appropriations system.
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