CNN Reporter Drew Griffin got it right: The $435 million no-bid contract to Siga reported earlier by SFTT this week is a sham and yet another example of the blatant corruption in government and the cozy relationship that exists between political fund-raisers and career procurement officers in government. Nevertheless, director and mouth-piece for Siga, Fran Townsend was able to do a convincing cover-up in a CNN interview with an obviously uncomfortable Anderson Cooper ...
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SFTT has been reporting for years on the distasteful – read, rampant corruption – in our military procurement process. We are not finger-pointers, we simply comment on the many government auditing studies that clearly indicate that our military procurement process is out of control and, yes, corrupt from top to bottom.
Does this mean our military leadership is corrupt? Of course not, but then who is accountable when corrupt and inept military officers and civilians in the chain of command ...
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