Bush caused a bit of a stir in October after she tweeted her goal of defunding not just the police but the Pentagon:
If you're having … a bad day, just think of all the social services we're going to fund after we defund the Pentagon…
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Tata’s elevation to the top policy job at the Pentagon caused consternation among Pentagon officials who are wary of his controversial … of defense and being involved in the preparation of all Pentagon decisions. … He later moved to the Justice Department as an aide to former Attorney General Jeff Sessions before moving to the Pentagon.…
Mark Hertling, a CNN military analyst, got into a debate over the wisdom of the Trump-approved Pentagon decision to pull 12,000 U.S … didn’t take the bait on the swipe, and simply noted that it was planned and would be implemented by military officials at the Pentagon … the particulars that Hertling likely does not:
It may not be your assessment but it was planned and will be implemented by the Pentagon…
Then the Pentagon said there was “no corroborating evidence to validate” the claim. … Does Tapper really think he knows more than Grenell or the Pentagon? Seriously?…
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$21 TRILLION of Pentagon financial transactions “could not be traced, documented, or explained. … ”
$21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T. … That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon.…
‘We are concerned about the implications of the appearance of conflicts of interest and impropriety related to how Pentagon personnel … with close ties to Amazon may have influenced multi-billion-dollar cloud contracts.’…
“Amazon’s high-ranking connections in the Pentagon…
FILE – In this Feb. 6, 2017 file photo, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis stands outside the Pentagon. … It was news to him — he hadn’t received a phone call or a heads-up from anyone at the Pentagon or the White House,” Thomas E. … In another post, Ricks says Mattis was fired because:
Pentagon insiders say that he rubbed civilian officials the wrong way —…
his first visit to a conflict zone as commander in chief, a week after announcing a victory over the Islamic State that his own Pentagon … pressure for him to spend time with troops deployed to conflicts in the Middle East and punctuates the biggest week of turmoil the Pentagon … the U.S. presence in foreign wars and assert his personal influence over the military at a moment of tremendous turmoil at the Pentagon…
behind-the-scenes shenanigans on the Hill are really only the tip of the iceberg of the many ways that institutional Washington – the CBO, the Pentagon…
That is still true but there are increasingly worrying signs of rot within the Pentagon. … The allegations of the Pentagon cooking the books about both Afghanistan and the Islamic State will be at the center of a new congressional…
