Devastating Military Cuts Endanger Readiness--While Obama Bypasses Congress With Covert Action

by Monica Davis The ongoing budget battles between Congress and the White House endangers readiness, overextends old planes and equipment and creates a dangerous, expensive reliance on military contractors and intilligence agences with allegedly alternative sources of revenue. The miitary, that is the entities which survive at the behest of Congressional funding, are at a distince disadvantage, when covert agencies utilize off the books, covert sources of funding. On the other hand, those pesky little spies in the CIA can allegedly violate international law, where the military can not. And, President Barack Obama is using the CIA to bypass international law and UN restrictions, just like his predecessors.



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