IMMEDIATELY AFTER LAUNCHING EFFORT TO SCUTTLE IRAN DEAL, TOM COTTON TO MEET WITH DEFENSE CONTRACTORS

[DonViejo]

IMMEDIATELY AFTER LAUNCHING EFFORT TO SCUTTLE IRAN DEAL, SENATOR TOM COTTON TO MEET WITH DEFENSE CONTRACTORS

03/09/2015 6:18 PM

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Tomorrow, 24 hours later, Cotton will appear at an “Off the Record and strictly Non-Attribution” event with the National Defense Industrial Association, a lobbying and professional group for defense contractors.

The NDIA is composed of executives from major military businesses such as Northrop Grumman, L-3 Communications, ManTech International, Boeing, Oshkosh Defense and Booz Allen Hamilton, among other firms.

Cotton strongly advocates higher defense spending and a more aggressive foreign policy. As The New Republic’s David Ramsey noted, “Pick a topic — Syria, Iran, Russia, ISIS, drones, NSA snooping — and Cotton can be found at the hawkish outer edge of the debate…During his senate campaign, he told a tele-townhall that ISIS and Mexican drug cartels joining forces to attack Arkansas was an ‘urgent problem.'”

On Iran, Cotton has issued specific calls for military intervention. In December he said Congress should consider supplying Israel with B-52s and so-called “bunker-buster” bombs — both items manufactured by NDIA member Boeing — to be used for a possible strike against Iran.

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Full Article:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/09/upon-launching-effort-scuttle-iran-deal-senator-tom-cotton-meets-defense-contractors/

[L0oniX]

1. No one is going to do anything about this kind of conniving greed.

[Buzz Clik]

41. Yeah, bullshit. Congress fully legalized it. n/t

[NightWatcher]

2. He's getting paid to do everything he can to start a war

Nice guy.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Cotton: Not your everyday traitor

but a profiteering Republican traitor.

I hope someone is watching this clown's
bank account for hankypanky.
The GOP loves their payola.

[samsingh]

14. kick

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

27. He really hates brown people.

He was very successful killing them in Iraq.

[DetlefK]

4. ISIS and mexican cartels working together??? The DHS should cash him right now!!!

This guy has valuable information!!!

[Cha]

5. Love your caps, Don.. they're needed! Thank you for this report!

[DonViejo]

7. Thanks Cha, but I just copied and pasted the existing headline of the story. eom

[Cha]

8. Haha... well, somebody thought they needed caps! lol I thought you were going all out. :)

[HappyMe]

6. k&r

[Hekate]

9. Did he now? This just gets better and better, doesn't it?

[freshwest]

37. Typical GOP...

[CrispyQ]

10. Disgusting.

I'm sure the media will run with this.

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. Did you see the New York Daily News front page?

[zeemike]

19. I'm stealing that.

[niyad]

39. printed and framing

[gratuitous]

11. He has to get his cookie

After all, he followed the commands he was given, and even got 46 of his Senate colleagues to sign on (literally). Time to collect his reward and get his next set of marching orders. Off the record, of course.

[KamaAina]

12. WHY ALL CAPS?

[Ichingcarpenter]

18. when you copy a firstlook headline its all caps

you have to copy it, then do a google search then you can find it without all caps......... its a pain but that's how I do it to avoid the full cap problem.

[randr]

13. Tea Party wackos are trogan horses from the MIC

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. Oh and this will be reported by the TV snooze channels

Maybe Rachel but not the nightly news

THANKS FIRSTLOOK FOR ALL YOU DO.

OH......... Greenwald's news site........ nevermind

kick recommend.

[questionseverything]

25. so sorry but it can not be important news as i read here at du

greenwald sent a tweet that made reid booboo

and years ago he was a lawyer for a bad guy

and (oops can't read the rest the list there is a bus tire track covering it)

[lark]

17. Ta-da, true motives revealed

These Repug seditionists, it's always about the $$ for war and oil, that's all they really care about. They don't care about private education, they just want to make it so that only the rich get any real education whatsoever. They don't care about gay marriage, it's just a ploy to get the fundie vote. They do care about abortion, don't want to stop the flow of low wage worker bees and again keeping the fundie vote. As far as the morality of it, pfft, they could care less.

[dawnie51]

20. I heard someone this morning blame Cotton's inexperience.....

Bullshit! Mitch McConnell is quite experienced. So are some of the other signers of this piece of garbage. It's all of them and they deserve every bit of ridicule and derision aimed their way. I hope this tsunami squashes all of them

[TRoN33]

21. Tom Cotton is already doing more damages to our national security in......

Mere two months than Ted Cruz and his teabaggers has done to us for past five years. Damn!

[RufusTFirefly]

22. Do tell!

And guess what: Both Republicans and Democrats engage in this despicable behavior. The Republicans, as usual, do it more often and are just more brazen about it. (Being a sociopath means never having to say you're sorry.)

By the way, I thought "we" were supposed to revile The Intercept as some sort of shameless libertarian rag and home to the Third Way's bête noire, Glenn Greenwald. I guess we drag them out from under the bus when it serves our purposes, eh?

[LiberalLovinLug]

30. Yes tell

The "we" you are referring to is only a small loud frightened minority on here. The "Rahm Democrats" that feel uncomfortable when they look around at all the liberal "fucking retards" that actually respect news organizations that are not afraid to publish important and relevant stories, like The Intercept

[RufusTFirefly]

34. Agree completely

(But then, you knew that, I hope.)



P.S. One thing we don't agree on though, is the Canucks.

[LiberalLovinLug]

36. lol

You're right on that one RufustFirefly!

I won't even mention that we've won the season series 3 - 2 and are ahead in the standings.

(If you don't mention how you swept us in our last playoff match-up.)

[RufusTFirefly]

42. I'll tell you what: You can keep the Sedins, but let's trade coaches, OK?

Q: What do you call an American who follows hockey?
A: A Canadian

[LiberalLovinLug]

43. You're welcome up here anytime

You'd have an instant in.
Good luck in getting into the playoffs. Maybe our teams will meet up!

[City Lights]

24. How convenient!

I do hope he signs up to fight on the front lines. His children, too, and grandchildren, if he has any.

[muntrv]

26. Draft the 47 senators who signed this letter, since they love war.

[Enthusiast]

28. They just can't wait for a new bigger war.

[Blue_Tires]

29. But Glenn was cheering him on twitter?

Someone at FLM is off-message...

[LynneSin]

31. Did I just fall asleep and wake up in a world where this guy is now President?

Because I don't recall voting for the asshole, I know that much.

So why does he think he should be meeting and making any decisions with Defense Contractors.

The GOP is forcing a war without any presidential intervention and this is utter BULLSHIT.

[Geronimoe]

32. Who does Cotton Represent?

Age eligible voters in the US is around 235 million people. Tom Cotton received 478 thousand votes in becoming Senator.

This is 0.02% of eligible voters. Yet he feels perfectly content on undermining the President, the will of the American people, and five close Allied Nations.

This may not rise to treason, but it does reflect incredibly reckless and bad judgement.... a hallmark of the Republican Party.

[El Shaman]

33. Does this Mofo have

a legitimate set of parents???

[vkkv]

35. He is insane.

Just like 46 other GOP Senators.

[NorthCarolina]

38. Picking up his paycheck?

[Buzz Clik]

40. Goddamned straight he is.

Or at least giving them routing info for his bank.

Fargin' whore.