The wastrels of defense : how Congress sabotages U.S. security /
"Wheeler has filled this book with evidence of congressional wrongdoing, naming names and citing examples. Pointing to the extremes that have become routine in the legislative process, he focuses on defense appropriations and the willingness of those on Capitol Hill to load down defense bills w...
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Annapolis, Md. :
Naval Institute Press,
[2004]
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| Series: | Campaigns & political culture (Booknotes)
Government (Booknotes) |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Program air date: November 7, 2004 |
Table of Contents:
- The nature of the problem
- What is the problem?
- Ego is at the heart of the trouble
- Pork : it's worse than you've been told
- War is not hell : it's an opportunity
- Mr. Smith is dead
- Confessions of a pork processor
- Pork lows and highs
- How the system operates, or doesn't
- Oversight : the triumph of appearances over reality
- Watchdogs, lapdogs, and distorted lenses
- Beyond nonfeasance : the utility of distortion
- The engine of congressional good and evil : the staff
- Hill life and death
- The right and wrong way to go to war
- Politicians at their best
- Congress on its knees
- The week of shame
- Conclusion.