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August 5, 2019
The military's been lying about its spending decades: Dave Lindorff Discusses the Pentagon's Massive Accounting
By Dave Lindorff
In April, Dave Lindorff won an “Izzy” from the Park Center for Independent Media for a Nation cover story exposing how the Pentagon has been lying for decades about its spending, and how Congress, unable to do any oversight because of such epic fraud, still gives the Pentagon what it asks for each year, and more.In this interview on radio KMUD, he points out how insane it is that Americans aren’t up in arms over this ...
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In April, Dave Lindorff won an “Izzy” from the Park Center for Independent Media for a Nation cover story exposing how the Pentagon has been lying for decades about its spending, and how Congress, unable to do any oversight because of such epic fraud, still gives the Pentagon what it asks for each year, and more.
In this interview on radio KMUD, he points out how insane it is that Americans aren’t up in arms over this outrage, when we know they'd be screaming if agencies like Health and Human Services, Labor, the EPA, Education or OSHA had failed an audit or committed the kind of fraud the Pentagon’s been committing for decades. Military spending, after all, accounts for 57% of all federal discretionary spending each year, while those other agencies combined represent just a small fraction of that amount…
To hear this interview of DAVE LINDORFF, please go to ThisCantBeHappeing.net
Authors Website: http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
Authors Bio:
Dave Lindorff, winner of a 2019 "Izzy" Award for Outstanding Independent Journalism from the Park Center for Independent Media in Ithaca, is a founding member of the collectively-owned, journalist-run online newspaper www.thiscantbehappening.net. He is a columnist for Counterpunch, is author of several recent books ("This Can't Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy" and "Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Penalty Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal"). His latest book, coauthored with Barbara Olshanshky, is "The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office (St. Martin's Press, May 2006).