Subtitled: The $4 Trillion War on Terror: Where did the money go?
Interesting overview (3 pages) of cost of the self-licking ice cream cone that has become "all's fair in the name of security" these days. (Yes, even TS' beloved fusion centers get a nod.)
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As a 2014 report by Human Rights Watch and Columbia University Law School’s Human Rights Institute noted, “Multiple studies have found that nearly 50 percent of the federal counterterrorism convictions since September 11, 2001, resulted from informant-based cases.” That doesn’t sound so bad until you realize the informants’ job in many of these instances was to trick otherwise innocent people into signing on to illegal plots of the government’s own invention. In one case, a judge concluded that the government “came up with the crime, provided the means, and removed all relevant obstacles” in order to make a “terrorist” out of a man “whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in scope.”
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3-page online article here.
How're those spares stockage-levels doing for those dusty aircraft sitting over there? Training budget? We don' nid no stinkin' training budget..
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