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- Nearly 100,000 Pentagon whistleblower complaints have been silenced – Lee Camp
I don’t know if I’d have the nerve to be a whistleblower. I’d like to think I would. We all like to think we would, just like we all like to think we could catch the game-winning touchdown or fold a fitted sheet without cursingApr 19, 2019 10:16 - Pentagon books so wrong on every level it’s impossible to detect fraud – Matt TaibbiThe US Department of Defense’s (DoD) finances are so labyrinthine and full of invented numbers that it’s impossible to detect cases of rampant fraud and criminality from the books, journalist Matt Taibbi told RT’s Lee Camp.Apr 15, 2019 15:11USA News
- Pentagon orders troops to leave Libya which it helped destabilize, laments ‘security conditions’Washington did not play an insignificant role in turning Libya from a rather stable nation into a chaotic free-for-all battle zone. And now the Pentagon says it is too dangerous for American troops to stay on the ground.Apr 7, 2019 13:46World News
- Turns out Pentagon was bombarded with ‘whistleblower complaint every 6 minutes’ – Lee CampA recent report shows that the Pentagon is pretty much buried with scores of whistleblower complaints. On his show Redacted Tonight, Lee Camp explained why the huge number of people sounding the alarm is not surprising.Apr 7, 2019 08:32USA News
- Nothing short of total obedience? Pentagon rejects any talks with Turkey in S-400 vs F-35 rowThe Pentagon has firmly rejected Turkey's offer to create a bilateral working group that would ensure that no military secrets of the US are compromised once Ankara deploys the Russian S-400 air defense systems.Apr 5, 2019 01:56World News
- ‘Let’s not make weapons’: Trump unironically laments Chinese, Russian & US military spendingHaving drastically increased the Pentagon budget and demanded more spending by NATO, US President Donald Trump is now seriously (?) complaining that all that money could be better spent elsewhere.Apr 4, 2019 21:57World News
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