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Sen. Joseph Lieberman, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee, says that he has no intention of investigating Blackwater USA and other government contractors who have been accused of criminal action.

Lieberman said he gets “angry when I hear about fraud or corruption in the spending of American dollars,” but “You’ve got to set your own priorities, and it was clear to me that other committees were going to pick this up.”

Where I come from, the alleged murder of seventeen people is not classified as “fraud” or “corruption,” but Lieberman sees it another way. His counterpart in the House of Representatives, Rep. Henry Waxman, is holding hearings on the Blackwater incident.