Subject: The Pentagon's wasteful trillion dollar infatuation
From: "Danielle Brian, Project On Government Oversight" <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:36:39 -0600

Project On Government Oversight
http://getinvolved.pogo.org/site/R?i=QaGiYJY78MXJajxDk1pm3w
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"We're questioning whether [the F-35] is ever going to actually
work. And if it does work, it has all of these limitations.
How is this an advance from the old days?" 
( http://getinvolved.pogo.org/site/R?i=ublPt6BgWNRpKPO0I4Ucig )

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The New York Times posted a report ( http://getinvolved.pogo.org/site/R?i=G9osEKNRZz-6BX-brMDCQQ ) over the weekend examining some of the problems that have
plagued the Pentagon's stealth technology and the aircraft that
rely upon it  specifically the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

POGO is featured prominently in the video ( http://getinvolved.pogo.org/site/R?i=o6K6132a8RXVqTCFw8ZN0g ), including warnings we made years ago. Warnings that,
unfortunately, the Pentagon has never heeded.

So, it looks like we'll have to continue exposing the Pentagon's
crazy infatuation with the trillion dollar F-35 program. Just
last year, we broke the story that the Marine Corps' declaration
that its F-35 variant was ready to fly was nothing more than a PR
stunt ( http://getinvolved.pogo.org/site/R?i=hrNNiP6Yz4gFxxOHio0lIg ).

We've outlined some of the major issues with the F-35 ( http://getinvolved.pogo.org/site/R?i=fQLCpTvi7ib7S27NhjDRgw ) in this fact sheet. You can see all of our F-35 coverage ( http://getinvolved.pogo.org/site/R?i=36tOyMHpKfk6124nx1v0Sg ) on our Straus Military Reform Project website.

We can only hope that years from now, when the New York Times
decides to follow up on the F-35's troubling legacy, it will be
the story of how the Pentagon finally came to its senses and
decided to halt production of this disaster of a program until
operational testing is complete.

Sincerely,

Danielle Brian
Executive Director

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