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Winslow Wheeler: NYT Lies on F-35 Financial Sinkhole Unable to Perform

On March 12 the editorial board of the NY Times published “The Fighter Jet That’s Too Pricey to Fail.” (It is at https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/opinion/f-35-fighter-jet-cost.html.)   It s a pathetic piece of work: riddled with factual errors, foolish – but trendy – judgments, and a conclusion is poorly supported by its own text.   On Monday, March 15, …

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Winslow Wheeler: Is Military Industrial Complex Stabbing President Donald Trump in the Back By Heavily Funding Bernie Sanders?

* Bernie Sanders is attracting more defense-related campaign contributions than all of his rivals, including Donald Trump. * Sanders’ margin is frequently large — puling in multiples of what others have received, including Donald Trump. * On multiple specific measures, Trump is performing poorly in attracting defense-related contributions compared to several Democrats.

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SPECIAL: Winslow Wheeler – US Congress Hides The Earmarks But They Are Still There — Most Corrupt Congress in History, With Lockheed As a Particular Beneficiary

Those Porky Pentagon Earmarks Never Really Went Away In fact, the new scheme is even more venal, underhanded, and wasteful. The new pork system is deceptive and complex. It took all of my 31 years of experience on Capitol Hill to fully unravel it, with the help of some excellent research from two outstanding watchdog …

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Winslow Wheeler: Pentagon Hiding $125B in Waste — and the Report It Asked For… + Waste Reference Library

Bottom line up front: one quarter, 25%, of the Pentagon’s annual budget, is spent on overhead, not on troops or weapons or mobility systems. As a businessman, President-Elect Trump should understand that more money for a system this sick is a step in the wrong direction and that a take-no-prisoners manager (with a proven record …

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Winslow Wheeler: USAF Lies About the A-10 — Is This Treason? Should the USAF Be Abolished and the US Army GIven Air Support Mission?

Last Thursday, USA Today published an article titled “A-10 Warplane Tops List for Friendly Fire Deaths.”  It purported to use data provided by sources inside the Air Force to substantiate the article and its title.  In fact, the article performed no significant, even rudimentary, analysis of the data the Air Force sources provided, let alone …

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