Financial (Mis)management at the Pentagon
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2006
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.7 | Has the War on Terror replaced the War on Waste? |
| 0:14.9 | Hello again, I'm Arminolny, and this is To the Poet from Public Radio International. |
| 0:18.9 | A daily look at the issues, Americans care about most. It's hardly news that there's waste in the Pentagon, but a new study has business |
| 0:25.6 | leaders dropping their jaws. They say the Defense Department's financial management would put |
| 0:30.7 | any civilian company out of business. No one is accountable, and nobody cares. On to the point, |
| 0:37.2 | the U.S. spends more on defense than the rest of the world combined, |
| 0:41.1 | but nobody knows if GIs in Iraq receive the equipment they need or whether it's ever been |
| 0:45.8 | paid for. |
| 0:46.8 | Today we'll hear that's just the tip of the iceberg. |
| 0:50.1 | On reporter's notebook later on, why would North Korea test fire a ballistic missile now? |
| 0:56.4 | First, here's the news. |
| 0:59.8 | Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica |
| 1:04.3 | and from the Public Radio International Program Fund, |
| 1:07.4 | whose contributors include the Ford Foundation |
| 1:09.7 | and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur |
| 1:11.8 | Foundation. Hello, again, I'm only back with To the Poet. Donald Rumsfeld once said the Pentagon |
| 1:16.2 | couldn't account for $2.3 trillion. A new study by business leaders says no one is accountable, |
| 1:23.1 | and nobody cares. On To the Point, whatever happened to the war on waste, what's the impact on the war in |
| 1:29.0 | Iraq? On reporter's notebook, North Korea appears ready to test fire a missile despite warnings |
| 1:34.5 | from South Korea, Japan, France, the UN, and the United States. Why now? First, this news update, |
| 1:41.1 | the remains of two kidnapped American soldiers are being returned to the United States after Iraqi authorities said they show signs of barbaric torture. |
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