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Pentagon Buries Study Revealing $125 Billion In Waste On "Bloated Bureaucracy"

Pentagon Buries Study Revealing $125 Billion In Waste On "Bloated Bureaucracy"

The Pentagon's goal was simple, empower the Defense Business Board (DBB), a federal advisory panel of corporate executives, to retain consultants to identify potential cost savings in the Department of Defense's $580 billion budget.  But, when the DBB study revealed a "clear path to saving over $125 billion," a level of waste which spoke to the egregious mismanagement and incompetence of DoD leaders, it was clear something had to be done to bury the story.  Now, according to the Washington Post, that is exactly what happened.