Related: Meet Your Antiwar New England Liberals
Strangely, they are NEVER MENTIONED in the Globe's piece!
"Congress challenged to rethink costly weapons programs; Top Pentagon official aims to shift priorities" by Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | July 15, 2009
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon’s top weapons buyer, in a prelude to a showdown with Congress over the Obama administration’s plan to halt purchases of the F-22 fighter jet, directly challenged lawmakers yesterday to come up with funding and detailed justifications for any weapons programs they want to rescue from the Defense Department’s chopping block.
In his first interview since taking office, Ashton B. Carter urged members of Congress to rethink their efforts to revive costly weapon programs the Department of Defense wants to scale back or terminate as it tries to fix a broken procurement system and outfit troops with the right equipment.
“[To] anybody who wants to cherry-pick and change one piece of the defense program or another I would say, ‘You tell me what you want to cut in order to save something that the department has ended and why that choice is better for the warfighter than the choice we have made,’ ’’ Carter, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics, told the Globe in his Pentagon office....
Gonna call Kennedy's office, Globe?
The Pentagon is facing fierce resistance from Democrats and Republicans seeking to safeguard thousands of jobs in 44 states, including Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire....
And WHOM would THEY BE, 'eh?
Carter told the Globe yesterday: “We don’t have a government arms industry.’’
What the hell is that guy smoking?
