Leaked testimony shows Sec. Gates prepared to criticize Pentagon procurement

By Nick Schwellenbach

Defense Secretary Robert Gates will criticize Pentagon procurement at a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday, accordin

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"… eiving end of those kicks.” …"

Leaked report details failure to get armored vehicles to Marines in Iraq

By Nick Schwellenbach

The report featured in USA Today. When Marines in Iraq urgently asked for armored vehicles particularly resistant to improvised explosive d

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"… delays in providing MRAPs, the IG found an equally troubling breakdown by Pentagon brass – the failure to anticipate the use of IEDs by Iraqi insurgents. …"

Lost, stolen, sold? Tracking U.S. weapons in Afghanistan

By Te-Ping Chen

When the headlines first appeared in August 2007, they seemed ironic: Four years after the United States invaded Iraq in search of Saddam Hu

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"… fice, the real problem was keeping track of our own arms. It turns out the Pentagon’s difficulty in keeping tabs on the weaponry it ships isn’t restricted …"

"… January.Preliminary findings on the subject were issued in October by the Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General, which flew a team to Afghanistan this pas …"

"… other story. According to a source at the DOD, the report will do what the Pentagon’s inspector general did not — put a figure on exactly how many weapons …"

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Eastern Europe to U.S.: Wait, wait, now we want your missiles!

By Nikola Horejs

The controversy over the missile defense system the United States plans to build in Eastern Europe has taken almost a 360-degree turn recent

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"… e a hard sell. The missile defense project is among the top candidates for Pentagon budget cuts. The system hasn’t been proved effective, argue some experts …"

IG hopes report will just go away

By Nick Schwellenbach

The Pentagon’s inspector general attempted a quick disappearing act late this week. The IG officially rescinded an audit released this sprin

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"… xamine this matter,” BAE spokesman Greg Caires told PaperTrail today. …"

"… ng to an October 23 letter from the IG to the Defense Security Service.The Pentagon IG, or any inspector general for that matter, rarely takes back report fin …"

Billions for KBR

By Sarah Laskow

Whistleblower Charles M. Smith, who oversaw Pentagon contracts in Iraq, says he was forced out of his job in 2004 after refusing to pay defe

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"… ations for up to 10 more years. …"

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Advisors of influence: Nine members of the Defense Policy Board have ties to defense contractors

By André Verlöy and Daniel Politi

Data by Aron Pilhofer WASHINGTON, March 28, 2003 — Of the 30 members of the Defense Policy Board, the government-appointed group that advis

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"… the Defense Policy Board, the government-appointed group that advises the Pentagon, at least nine have ties to companies that have won more than $76 billion …"

"… es on the board have ties to companies with significant contracts from the Pentagon.Members of the board disclose their business interests annually to the Pen …"

"… gon.Members of the board disclose their business interests annually to the Pentagon, but the disclosures are not available to the public. “The forms are fil …"

"… the filings to make sure they are in compliance with government ethics,” Pentagon spokesman Maj. Ted Wadsworth told the Center for Public Integrity.The comp …"

The hot line from Virginia to Al Qaeda

LONDON, June 12, 2002 — The flaw in the U.S. communications system is a Pentagon network called the Global Broadcasting Service (GBS), a new

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Commentary: The dangers of disinformation in the war on terrorism

By Maud S. Beelman

WASHINGTON, February 2, 2002 — "In wartime," Winston Churchill once said, "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a body

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"… n a war situation, it’s different.” In 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, Pentagon officials leaked word that a U.S. aircraft carrier would be delayed in dep …"

"… nd the Center for Public Integrity. The British model— influenced by the Pentagon’s experience with media coverage of Vietnam— was based on the premise …"

"… the voracious 24-hour news cycle.In the summer of 1997, a group of senior Pentagon officers and military reporters gathered for a retreat aimed at improving …"

"… hered for a retreat aimed at improving their often rocky relationship. The Pentagon was 18 months into a successful Bosnian peacekeeping deployment, and repor …"

In ’93, biological defense program was misguided, poorly managed

By Seth Shulman

WASHINGTON, October 29, 2001 — A study by the Center for Public Integrity in 1993 concluded that the United States was ill-served by the nat

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"… result of a year-long investigation, found a lack of accountability in the Pentagon's Biological Defense Research Program; it said that while hundreds of mill …"

"… nce of effective vaccines U.S. military representatives announced that the Pentagon’s supply of vaccines was woefully inadequate even for its own forward-de …"

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