dictating what we do in terms of defense? what i make of it, alex, is that it s going to be an exciting time for us journalists because there will be a lot of drama stirred up with ash carter when he takes over the pentagon and john mccain when he takes over the arms services committee. one of the flash points will be over money. you know sequestration will kick off next year and we expect it to. the money for the pentagon runs out next week, as you pointed out and there s no time to do any long-range cerebral planning of which ash carter is a champion and there s lots of other structural budget problems and basically the pentagon is running out of money and so the whole budget planning process is stumbling over itself which means there will be cost overruns and delays and acquisition programs and john mccain hates delays and overruns. so it s going to be spectacular. are you telling me john mccain isn t patient? i m kidding.
not adding up and you re starting to see a level of ridiculousness coming out of washington d.c. that really has caused the american people a lot of concern. well, the other day or the other week, it was announced that the trueman aircraft carrier would not be deployed to the persian gulf because of money, because of sequestration. do you buy that that was a legitimate reason, are they short of cash? are we short of cash in our defense? absolutely. because one of the things you have to understand, part of the budget control act was 487 billion dollars of cuts to the department of defense, over the next ten years. and that s taking care of the fraud, the waste and abuse and stream lining, research and development programs, acquisition programs which without a doubt was needed. as you know the first time you had me on i found wasteful programs in the dod budget. and now talking additional 45, 46 billion per year on the department of defense and that s going to start what is going to
intelligence agency that handles matters like this and lots else. it s called the defense intelligence agency, the d.i.a. apparently, they were warning about it as early as 2004. then, sometime after 2009, the threat analysis center at the d.i.a. started circulating within the pentagon the assessment that this software was a tool of the russian government. then, as early as 2012, d.i.a. started sharing that analysis, that warning about the software, they started sharing that not just within various acquisition programs in the pentagon, they started sharing that warning with other agencies in the u.s. government, as well. and then, this ends up being important, in 2013, the d.i.a., the defense intelligence agency, they did a full-blown report on the software being linked to russia intel. according to reporting, in 2013, the d.i.a. issued a pentagon-wide threat assessment
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