Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Pentagon buries evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste

Via Billy

http://www.stripes.com/polopoly_fs/1.290260.1475269111!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_900/image.jpg
 
The Pentagon has buried an internal study that exposed $125 billion in administrative waste in its business operations amid fears Congress would use the findings as an excuse to slash the defense budget, according to interviews and confidential memos obtained by The Washington Post.
 
Pentagon leaders had requested the study to help make their enormous back-office bureaucracy more efficient and reinvest any savings in combat power. But after the project documented far more wasteful spending than expected, senior defense officials moved swiftly to kill it by discrediting and suppressing the results.

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4 comments:

  1. genericviewsDecember 6, 2016 at 3:05 PM

    I cared about this until I saw it was in the Washington Post. After their election coverage, I don't believe a single thing they print, not even the date. The WP can be depended on to even lie about the horoscopes.

    The real spin should be: Obama administration wasted $125 Billion in defense spending. Then Obama and his political appointees buried the report that pointed it out.

    The good news is, the truth is never buried very deep. It eventually surfaces again. When the current crop of wasters get put on the curb, I suspect this report will come to light again.

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    1. Brock TownsendDecember 8, 2016 at 2:35 AM

      When the current crop of wasters get put on the curb, I suspect this report will come to light again.

      Hopefully!

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  2. genericviewsDecember 8, 2016 at 10:56 AM

    More ranting.

    https://genericviews.wordpress.com/2016/12/08/bloated-wasteful-government-agency-is-found-to-have-used-money-inefficiently/

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    1. Brock TownsendDecember 9, 2016 at 12:12 AM

      Thanks.

      https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2016/12/pentagon-buries-evidence-of-125-billion_9.html

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