The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Series title: Of Smoke ‘n Mirrors (Lost in the Wilderness)
The CIA must not only shoulder much of the blame for the position in which the U.S. finds itself within the geopolitical order; with little sign the agency has learned any lessons from its nefarious past, it appears self-evident for all but its most ardent apologists, the ‘Company’ can no longer be trusted—or for that matter, lay claim—to act in the national interest or in the interests of global stability, peace and security.
Top-Secret Pentagon Program Exploited Aid Workers as Covert Spies
Experts warn that Department of Defense espionage program places international NGOs at great risk
After a months-long investigation, The Intercept‘s Matthew Cole, with help from Margot Williams and Lee Fang, exposes the reach of a highly-classified Department of Defense program, which ran from December 2004 to 2013.
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: Pentagon Uses NGOs as Spies — Violation of US Law?”
Here’s How the Military Wasted Your Money in 2014
New year, old problems
The U.S. Congress approved $581 billion in military spending for 2014. That number includes the Pentagon’s base budget plus the Overseas Contingency Operations fund that pays for America’s various wars.
Shitty super-weapons (F-35, Littoral Combat Ships, M1A1 Tank)
Lazy ineffective Defense Logistics Agency
Afghan money pit
Pentagon could waste $100 million overpaying for spare parts, watchdog says
The Pentagon could wind up overpaying more than $100 million for spare aircraft parts because a contracting agent didn't check that he was getting the right prices, an investigative report found in May.
Huge Waste In $604 Billion Defense Bill Heads For Obama Veto
The $604 billion defense spending bill now nears passage with many billions of dollars in rampant defense waste scattered throughout. Aircraft waste on the pricey but flawed F-35, Navy waste on a next generation of nuclear submarines, and systemic waste in unchecked new weapons, all have found their costly places aboard the defense authorization bill.
How the Pentagon Lost Track of $45 Billion
It’s almost impossible to audit what taxpayers have spent to rebuild Afghanistan
Since 2002, Congress has set aside $104 billion specifically to rebuild Afghanistan. Of that, $66 billion went to the Pentagon. Recently, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction asked the military to account for all that spending. It couldn’t. According to a new report from SIGAR, the Pentagon only knows how it spent a third of its reconstruction budget.
That’s $45 billion dollars the military can’t track and the reason is … ridiculous. According to SIGAR, the Pentagon didn’t check a box on an electronic form when it filed the information in government databases.
