With Friends Like This...

Glad I decided to take a quick look at C-Span reruns. Just before turning in, I decided to glance at the Iraqi Reconstruction Funds Mismanagement Hearings... Reuters ran with the money story for the most part (linked to below) but I just heard this. Interesting:

Alan Grayson, an attorney who represents people hoping to get a share of reward money as they file under the U.S. False Claims Act, testified that a former FBI agent was recruited by an American subcontractor in Iraq, but walked out when he was asked to inflate charges for time and materials.

Grayson said the man 'refused twice and said, 'You all are going to prison.'

'The second time he was held at gunpoint in Baghdad, stripped of his weapons and security identification and then was released, defenseless, on the streets of Baghdad,' Grayson said. 'I'm talking about Americans holding guns on Americans.'

Grayson went on to say that the man managed to make it out of the country (via Fallujah). Probably took a few greenbacks. But still--it speaks volumes. At this point, Americans are turning on each other...