Inside the Pentagon: Useful Sites

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Inside the Pentagon: Useful Sites

BILL MOYERS: Many of you have written to ask what you can do about the stories we report that arouse your own outrage. The stock and worthy answer is to find out who represents you in Washington and let them hear about you. There's even a Defense Department hotline where you can report suspicions of fraud or mismangement. We've posted a lot of useful information on our own site at pbs.org and can link you to other relevant sites as well.

For example, if you want to know how your tax dollars are being spent right now, check out the National Priorities Project. You can enter the amount of income tax you paid last year and receive a line accounting of how the government spends it. Although he's retired, Chuck Spinney has updated his own Web site called Defense and the National Interest.

And the non-partisan Center for Defense Information, started by retired senior military officers as a watchdog on wasteful Pentagon spending, has a Web site crammed with useful information about Pentagon policy and defense programs.

Finally, here's a Web site that has become even more pertinent since reports a couple of weeks ago that the cost of the war and occupation of Iraq may be as much as one hundred billion dollars by the end of next year...double what we were told before the invasion. You're looking at it right now...clocking the cost of the war.

http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/defensesites.html