Novak: The military-industrial complex keep deal secret

[creeksneakers2]

Robert D. Novak:
The military-industrial complex always tries to keep its sweetheart deals secret
By ROBERT D. NOVAK

http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showfast.html?article=51114
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A multi-billion dollar bailout for a troubled aircraft manufacturer entangled with a senior government official trying to place her brother in the defense industry confirms President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s warning of the military-industrial complex. The reluctant, partial release of documents uncovers more evidence of how the complex works.

Boeing’s tanker deal appeared set until 2002 when protests were heard from two Republican senators, John McCain of Arizona and Phil Gramm of Texas. Since then, the deal has been killed and reputations destroyed. Former Boeing executive Michael Sears on Friday was sentenced to four months in prison for negotiating to hire Defense procurement official Darleen Druyun, who is serving a nine-month sentence.

Nevertheless, the Pentagon still resists McCain’s quest for information. In a Jan. 27 letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, McCain protested that “the Department’s production of documents has been riddled by disruption, obfuscation and delay. Some documents were doctored; others that should have been produced were improperly withheld.”

McCain and his staff are not handed documents but are forced to copy them by hand. Even the recent ruling by the Pentagon’s inspector general that Roche violated military ethics laws was labeled “FOUO (For Official Use Only).” It is not supposed to be publicly distributed, and a Feb. 10 report in the Washington Post constitutes its only publication, with Inspector General Joseph Schmitz paraphrased rather than quoted.

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[Canuckistanian]

1. Yeah, it's a bitch when government makes shady deals

To keep favoured people out of trouble.

[lala_rawraw]

2. um...

is this an attempt at reporting something by Nofuck?