Originally published at: Top DOD Official in Charge of the ‘Golden Dome for America’ Project Has Financial Ties to Contractors - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article first appeared at ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Thousands of companies are jockeying for billions of dollars in Defense Department contracts to build a shield designed to intercept and destroy missiles launched against the United States. But amid the intense…
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Teapot Dome on steroids.
Well done, ProPublica, great reporting.
Because of course he does.
The takeaway: Mobsters gotta mob.
It’s stunning how quickly we’ve come to be the very embodiment of all the things we railed against “shithole” governments doing (while simultaneously supporting the worst of the worst) for all these years.
While it’s convenient to place the blame solely on Dr. Cadet Toadglans mit der Bone Spurs von Queens, he’s merely the most visible symptom of the malignant disease that has been there all along.
In the long run, this could – could – be a good thing. Putin’s cock-holster* will die. The question then is: How far and with how much vigor will we go to prosecute and remove the vermin ensconced within our government and businesses?
Obama fucked up (and lost my support) as soon as he said “Look forward, not backward.” Will we walk the same path again and let the same cancer continue to eat us up?
*h/t Stephen Colbert
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