concerned, the release of this repo report, written exclusively by democratic senate staffers, without interviewing a single cia representative or member or agent or action officer, it s an absolute travesty. and today, today listening to senator feinstein. has she no shame? has she no self-awareness? in her diatribe, she made anwar zubaydah a martyr for those around the world. where is dianne feinstein s outrage and indignation and report on obama s use of drones where children have been chronicled as collateral damage, hundreds of them? why no report on that but a report on enhanced
views by the former defense secretary robert gates, who in his recent memoir describes the pentagon as a gargantuan labyrinth of democracy on which you had to declare war to gets results. 40% of pentagon spending goes to overhead, gates points out in his book. and as many as 30 layers of staff sit between the secretary of defense and an action officer. the pentagon resembles nothing so much as a gigantic socialist enterprise run according to its own principles, shielded from market discipline, and accountable to virtually no one. how does it continue to function and actually perform? the way socialist bureaucracies usually do. if you throw enough money and talented, energetic, and determined people at it, things can work until the money runs out. the united states still spends more on defense than the next eight nations put together including china and russia. the good news is that ash carter
republican senator john mccain. he is joined in many of his views by the former defense secretary robert gates, who in his recent memoir describes the pentagon as a gargantuan labyrinth of democracy on which you had to declare war to gets results. 40% of pentagon spending goes to overhead, gates points out in his book. and as many as 30 layers of staff sit between the secretary of defense and an action officer. the pentagon resembles nothing so much as a gigantic socialist enterprise run according to its own principles, shielded from market discipline, and accountable to virtually no one. how does it continue to function and actually perform? the way socialist bureaucracies usually do. if you throw enough money and talented, energetic, and determined people at it, things can work until the money runs out. the united states still spends more on defense than the next eight nations put together