Congress wants hearing on Pentagon wasteful spending charges

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Congress wants hearing on Pentagon wasteful spending charges
By Kristina Wong - 12/06/16 06:09 PM EST

Lawmakers on Tuesday called for a hearing on a Pentagon study that found as much as $150 billion in wasteful back-office spending.

The lawmakers also called for the full report, which The Washington Post reported on Tuesday had been withheld by Pentagon officials, to be made public.

“I think we should have a hearing about that and find out what happened,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, said Tuesday.

Sen. Claire McCaskilll (D-Mo.), who is expected to be the ranking member of a Senate oversight committee, called for an investigation.

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http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/309113-congress-wants-hearing-on-pentagon-wasteful-spending-charges

[jmyrlefuller]

Realize that much of that wasteful spending is in fact the cost of clandestine/covert operations buried in the cost of other things to hide the true nature of the operations.

[Gov Bean Counter]

Realize that much of that wasteful spending is in fact the cost of clandestine/covert operations buried in the cost of other things to hide the true nature of the operations.

Hence the $200 hammer???

[corbe]

Hence the $200 hammer???

  That's nothing compared to the expense of retrofitting the current AF1 with Gold Toilets.