The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Incompetence, Corruption or Both How the Defense Industry is Hosing Obama and the Taxpayer … Again By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY Counterpunch Monastir, Tunisa On 3 March 2010, CounterPunch carried my critique of the Pentagon’s 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), which was released in February. QDRs have a long history of producing rubbish, and President Obama’s …
Secrecy News Blog: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/ ** WHO IS AN INTELLIGENCE EMPLOYEE? ** WIKILEAKS: GIVING LEAKS A BAD NAME ** HUGE COMMERCIAL SAT IMAGERY CONTRACTS AWARDED ** ODNI ADVISORS ON BIO SCIENCES KEEP LOW PROFILE ** REVIEWS OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN US REMAIN “OBSCURE” WHO IS AN INTELLIGENCE EMPLOYEE? Could someone be considered an intelligence community employee …
+ Vermont Law School + South Royalton, Vermont + William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota. 12 August 2010 From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr12au10-41] ———————————————————————– DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Office of the Secretary List of Institutions of Higher Education Ineligible for Federal Funds AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD). ACTION: Notice.
(COMMENT: Retirees being targeted again…) Tom Philpott | August 05, 2010 Advisory Panels Say Military Benefits Unsustainable A consensus is building among current and former military leaders and defense industry executives that rising military personnel costs threaten the viability of the all-volunteer force. FULL STORY, Excellent Quotes from MajGen Arnold Punaro, USMC (Ret) former Staff …
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Virginia stands to feel the most pain from defense cuts Rosalind S. Helderman, The Washington Post, Tuesday August 10, 2010 RICHMOND — Virginia officials reacted with bipartisan dismay on Monday to Defense Department budget shifts that will cost the state thousands of jobs in coming years and will dramatically impact the economies of the Norfolk …
Today we have a Pentagon that is spending more money (in inflation adjusted dollars) on defense than at any time since WWII, yet it can not pass the relatively simple audits required by the Chief Financial Officer’s Act of 1990. This law was intended to put teeth into the Accountability and Appropriations clauses of the …
In simple terms, the collection of links below centered on the latest Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), come to the general conclusion that the Department of Defense (DoD) can no longer think, strategize, complete staff work, or acquire the right capabilities to do what DoD is supposed to do (which is also a topic lacking consensus). …
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