Also on the same web site, www.polinetworks.com , are exhibits that include the lobby firms employed by 10 of the largest defense contractors. See, for example, www.polinetworks.com/Page_5.htm and following.
The relationships among Congressmen, the Pentagon, defense contractors and their lobbyists are complex and difficult to describe in short sound bites or articles. But given the large amount of public funds directed to these firms, and the collateral damage to U.S. foreign policy caused by their pursuit of profits in the making and selling of arms, it is absolutely essential that these complex relationships be widely understood and their effects upon public life confronted. The Center for Responsive Politics and the World Policy Institute, in particular, are to be commended in contributing to our understanding of the Iron Triangle and its corroding effects upon public policy.
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