The Pentagon's $125-Billion Cover-up

Let's say you ask somebody a question. They give you an answer you don't like, so you pretend you didn't hear it. Probably all of us would cop to something like this at some time in our imperfect pasts. The Pentagon has a little image problem: Google "Pentagon waste" and you...

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Published in:Foreign policy in focus 2016-12, p.N_A
Main Author: Pemberton, Miriam
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Defense spending
Nuclear weapons
Radioactive wastes
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Summary:Let's say you ask somebody a question. They give you an answer you don't like, so you pretend you didn't hear it. Probably all of us would cop to something like this at some time in our imperfect pasts. The Pentagon has a little image problem: Google "Pentagon waste" and you get more than 500,000 hits, including stories about $600 toilet seats and $7,600 coffee makers. The finances of the largest agency in the federal government are so screwed up, it's the only one that still can't pass an audit. The report didn't even get to the real waste in the Pentagon budget, like the $1 trillion it's planning to spend to replace our entire nuclear arsenal, or the $1.4 trillion it's shelling out on the F-35, a plane that after 19 years in development still can't reliably beat the models we already have.
ISSN:1524-1939