Halliburton, the CIA and big tobacco companies are among the early targets identified by top Democratic staff to ABC News as likely targets for investigation once the Democrats take control of the House at the beginning of next year.
The staffers say Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), now expected to become speaker, has told top Democratic donors there is a "100-hour agenda" she wants to push through -- taking on the minimum wage, drug and energy prices and corruption.
Defense contractors, including Halliburton, the intelligence rationale for the war in Iraq and CIA secret prisons are what one staffer called "uninvestigated scandals."
Note to Nancy and the rest of the Dems: I hope you know what you're doing. I want change and answers as much as you do, but I'm worried that you'll lose credibility with voters if you make your next two years in office about "payback over the Republicans". Here's to your efforts to shut down Halliburton, though, because I wish someone would. Shut down Gitmo Bay, too, while you're at it.
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