In our latest Public I podcast, the Center’s Executive Director Bill Buzenberg talks to reporter Nick Schwellenbach about the lack of scrutiny of contracts awarded by the Department of Defense to private companies.

Defense contracting almost doubled during the Bush administration, while the number of fraud and corruption cases sent to prosecutors plummeted.

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