CD124: The Costs of For-Profit War

Congressional Dish

Jennifer Briney

News, Congress, Government, Politics, Corporations

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🗓️ 24 April 2016

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Two defense contractors went on a podcast and everything they said was true. In this episode, discover the shocking extent to which our government has privatized wartime operations. Please support Congressional Dish: to contribute with PayPal or Bitcoin; click the PayPal "Make it Monthly" checkbox to create a monthly subscription to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Mail Contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North #4576 Crestview, FL 32536 Thank you for supporting truly independent media! 2016 Podcast Awards Please Sound Clip Sources , March 19, 2016. Hearing: , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, September 21, 2011. Hearing: , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight, July 16, 2013. Additional Reading Article: by John Keller, Military and Aerospace Electronics, March 9, 2016. Congressional Research Service Report: by Jeremy M. Sharp, Congressional Research Service, February 25, 2016. Investor Report: , February 1, 2016. Bill Text: December 15, 2015. Congressional Research Service Report: by Heidi M. Peters, Moshe Schwartz, and Lawrence Kapp, Congressional Research Service, December 1, 2015. Article: by Dan Lamothe, The Washington Post, October 21, 2015. Article: byPete Troilo, Jeff Tyson, Devex, August 31, 2015. Article: by Philip Dorling, The Sydney Morning Herald, May 31, 2015. Nautilus Institute Report: by Desmond Ball, Duncan Campbell, Bill Robinson and Richard Tanter, May 28, 2015. Article: by Dan Lamothe, The Washington Post, May 20, 2015. Article: , Signal AFCEA, April 7, 2015. Defense Contract Audit Agency Report: Department of Defense, Defense Contract Audit Agency, March 25, 2015. Article: by Neal Ungerleider, Fast Company, February 18, 2015. Article by E.B. Boyd, Fast Company, January 28, 2015. Article: by Lindy Kyzer, Clearancejobs.com, August 15, 2013. Article: by Philip Dorling, The Age, July 26, 2013. Congressional Research Service Report: by Moshe Schwartz and Jennifer Church, Congressional Research Service, May 17, 2013. Government Accountability Office Report: , May 2013. Article: by Lindsay Wise, McClatchy Newspapers, January 19, 2013. Bill Text: in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, December 28, 2012. Article: by Eloise Lee and Robert Johnson, Buisness Insider, March 13, 2012. Article: by Skyler Frink, Military and Aerospace Electronics, February 1, 2012. Article: , StreetInsider.com, October 31, 2011. , August 2011. Congressional Research Service Report: by Moshe Schwartz and Joyprada Swain, Congressional Research Service, May 13, 2011. Article: by Spencer Ackerman, Wired, August 9, 2010. Article: by Angie Drobnic Holan, Politifact, June 9, 2010. News Release: by Sudi Bruni, Northrop Grumman Corporation, November 10, 2009. Additional Information Webpage: , March 9, 2015. Indeed.com Job Openings: Webpage: April 15, 2016. March 16, 2016. Webpage: Wikipedia: (C-RAM) Podcast Interviews Featuring Jennifer Briney: , April 20, 2016. , April 14, 2016. Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: by (found on by mevio)

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0:00.0	I am so damn tired of being like to.
0:09.0	I don't think I can't deny it anymore.
0:15.0	You can stick to your story if you think it flies but I'm not going to buy it anymore.
0:30.0	Hello and thank you for listening to the 124th episode of Congressional
0:34.8	Dish I'm your host Jennifer Briny. If this is your first time checking out
0:38.2	this show Congressional Dish is about your government. It's not about
0:41.7	campaigns, it's about what your government is doing in your name and how the laws are changing
0:46.4	and how it affects you and that definitely includes where your tax money is
0:50.9	going we all just paid our taxes on April 15th and we're all super mad about it and so this is an
0:57.2	episode that's not going to make you feel any better because this episode is about defense
1:02.4	contracting and it's a rabbit hole that exposed
1:06.3	Wow one rabbit hole after another after another after another and so actually this episode is based off of a episode of Ari Schaffir's Skeptic Tank that I listened to while I was traveling back and forth to Seattle.
1:21.0	As many of you know who listened to the last episode,
1:23.4	that we recently and my family experienced a terrible tragedy. We lost
1:27.4	someone that we love very much. And so I've been traveling a lot and a lot of
1:30.8	airplanes, a lot of subways, and I was listening to Ari Schaffir's podcast.
1:35.7	Now if you are easily offended, I cannot recommend Ari Shaffir's podcast to you, but if you are not easily offended if you're
1:44.3	someone like me who finds Ari Shafir to be hilarious, I really enjoy
1:48.3	Skeptic Tank and so that's what I was listening to I was listening to
1:50.9	episode 257 Money for Nothing and this episode was about
1:55.8	two defense contractors and they were anonymous on the show but Ari hadn't met
2:01.8	them and was amazed by the stuff that they had discussed and so he had these two guys on his podcast and they discussed a lot of things related to being a defense contractor and so I was just listening to this episode and I was
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