Written by John Lounsbury
Bill Moyers interviewed Chuck Spinney, who has spent 30 years working inside the US Department of Defense, about the health of America’s defense systems in 2003. This week our video is that interview. This video was recommended by Roger Erickson. It won the 2003 Emmy for best news magazine show of the year.
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From Wikipedia:
Franklin C. “Chuck” Spinney (born May 2, 1945) is an American former military analyst for the Pentagon who became famous in the early 1980s for what became known as the “Spinney Report”, criticizing what he described as the reckless pursuit of costly complex weapon systems by the Pentagon, with disregard to budgetary consequences. Despite attempts by his superiors to bury the controversial report, it eventually was exposed during a United States Senate Budget Committee on Defense hearing, which though scheduled to go unnoticed, made the cover of Time magazine March 7, 1983.
The corruption that is the “military-industrial-congressional complex” is clearly described in this epic interview.
Source: Vimeo
Articles by Chuck Spinney at GEI:
Cockburn Report: The Fatally Flawed Theory of Victory Thru Airpower Alone
