Yesterday, CREW demanded for an investigation of a $74 million contract awarded to Sioux Manufacturing -- after the company was fined for providing faulty helmets to U.S. soldiers. Our letter to the Chairs and Ranking members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees can be found here.   Melanie Sloan also expressed our outrage.

Outrage is the only reasoned response to learning that the Department of Defense is its responsibility to do its best to protect our troops. This is a situation that cries out for Congressional oversight and we hope we can count on you to immediate investigate this appalling turn of events.

That outrage is shared by veterans.  Today, Jon Soltz of VoteVets.Org announced his support for CREW's demand for an investigation of the contract:

Thankfully, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has taken up the case and written to Congress to investigate this matter. We at VoteVets.org fully support their call for an investigation, and we'll be doing more in the coming days to support their efforts.

There have been many, many things wrong with how the wars have been waged. I don't think I need to go through a litany of them. But, to me, there is no issue more tragic than how Donald "The Army You Have" Rumsfeld, and this administration have been absolutely and totally irresponsible - indeed wreckless - in how they go about protecting our troops at the most basic levels, from body armor, to Humvee armor, and now, to helmets.