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Winslow Wheeler: Congressional Pork Hidden in Defense Budget

Slush funds for the executive branch in authorization and appropriations bills are a big no-no, but if they are intended for Members and their staff to use, that would seem to be different. What I found in the House Armed Services Committee’s defense authorization bill  is described at Time’s Battleland blog at http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/05/29/a-peek-at-pentagon-pork-a-taxpayers-guide/, and below: A Peek …

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Winslow Wheeler: Elitist Corruption on the Defense Budget

Just as the leaders of US national security thinking led America into the war in Iraq based on the false premise of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction and reckless, but politically powerful, rhetoric, Washington’s elite are now circling the wagons around the defense budget.  They are using the same disingenuous tactics and the same kind …

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DefDog: Defense Contractors Start the Big Lie Again–Jobs PLUS Winslow Wheeler Defense Budget Facts RECAP

More lies…big ones. Defense contractors launch campaign to end military spending cuts Los Angeles Times, September 14, 2011 Seeking to whip up public support for what’s expected to be a hard-fought budget battle in Congress, a group of defense contractors launched a lobbying campaign urging an end to cuts in military spending. The campaign, named …

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Winslow Wheeler: Defense Budget Hysteria

Defense Budget Hysteria and Business as Usual – or Reform? By Winslow T. Wheeler Military.com, 9 August 2011 The rhetoric of people rushing to rescue Pentagon spending from “completely unacceptable” cuts is quite hysterical.  Leading the chorus has been Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.  He termed the possible defense budget cuts (about $850 billion over …

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Winslow Wheeler: Pentagon’s budget realities mandate new Defense team

The tired old ideas in SecDef Hagel’s first defense budget make clear that he needs new thinking from his DOD team, or a new team. Pentagon’s budget realities mandate new Defense team By Winslow T. Wheeler – 04/16/13 07:25 PM ET President Obama’s budget for the Department of Defense for 2014 is a strange document. …

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Winslow Wheeler: “Defense” Budget – the Full Enchilada

Last Monday, after the Pentagon released its 2013 budget materials, just about every news article I read inaccurately reported the totals.  These articles did not just miss some significant bits not in DOD’s press release; they ignored another $380 billion in spending for US national security spending if you take the time to parse through …

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