Nor do past embarrassments seem to have slowed the process. Last year, a classified project associated with the Duke Cunningham scandal received a $3 million earmark. This year, the same activity saw funding tripled to $9 million. Found and identified by Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) under the heading ?Classified Programs -- C3I,? a project labeled ?Foreign Supply Assessment Center? is ?earmarked? to receive the money in the R&D/Navy Title of the 2006 DOD Appropriations Act. TCS further reports that Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Va., was the prime mover of this ?add-on.?
Of course, the pork is only part of the story.