Defense contractors gleefully report record earnings in divisions that bid on "classified" projects, the fastest-growing part of the Pentagon's budget

bobtato · November 30, 2019, 8:14pm

I realise this is a beyond-futile point to make, but in a free society, no secret military capital spending is justifiable, if you think about it. What could a democratic country’s military even theoretically be doing that its people aren’t allowed to know about?

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Defense contractors gleefully report record earnings in divisions that bid on "classified" projects, the fastest-growing part of the Pentagon's budget

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