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    To the Point

    Wasteful spending at the Pentagon (again)

    The Washington Post reports that the Pentagon buried an internal study documenting no less than $12 billion in wasteful spending. The Post says bureaucrats were trying to protect the military from new cuts in the Defense Budget.

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    By Warren Olney • Dec 6, 2016 • 1 min read

    The Washington Post reports that the Pentagon buried an internal study documenting no less than $12 billion in wasteful spending. The Post says bureaucrats were trying to protect the military from new cuts in the Defense Budget. Mandy Smithberger is director of the Straus Military Reform Project on the nonpartisan Project on Government Oversight.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Paul von Zielbauer

      Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times

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      Katie Cooper

      Producer, 'One year Later'

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      Mandy Smithberger

      Project on Government Oversight

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    The full episode

    1 of 3
    The Italy referendum and the populist march on Europe
    1. 1:25Wasteful spending at the Pentagon (again)You’re reading this
    2. 7:56Is populism a threat to democracy?
    3. 41:35Fake news, real guns and a top Trump advisor
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