When the Pentagon announced its 2013 budget last week, the press dutifully repoted the number, $525.4 billion, and Pentagon-watchers laughed. We all knew it had next to nothing to do with real national security spending. Luckily Winslow Wheeler — one of the most experienced and intelligent Pentagon-watchers around — ignored the press releases, dug into the budget and crunched the numbers. No surprise, his numbers show that spending is about what it has been for years now, around $1 trillion.
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This is why I promptly went to reddit to accuse Panetta of lying 2 weeks ago when he announced that
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