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...Gates really demonstrated his seriousness earlier this month when he cashiered a Marine two-star general who had been running the Pentagon's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, the most expensive weapons system in history, for failing to meet cost and performance goals. Senior officers fumble multibillion programs fairly often, but rarely are they publicly rebuked - never mind fired - for such snafus. "Fundamentally reforming acquisitions, above all, calls on us to foster a culture and practice of accountability - accountability with regard to industry and within the walls of this building as well," Gates said at the Pentagon. (See pictures...
...those fighter-type players,” Green said. “She will fight for every ball. She’ll be out there as long as she needs to be. That’s the kind of person you need out there...
...attentive to timing, a little self-deprecating, acutely self-aware. It was also revealing. Gates is a careful, restrained player who wields his power with quiet but ruthless efficiency - as he did on Feb. 1, when he fired the military officer overseeing the Pentagon's new F-35 stealth-fighter-jet program for cost overruns and technical failures and punished Lockheed Martin by withholding $615 million in fees. Lots of defense contractors and program managers underachieve, yet they almost always get away with it. Not under Gates...
...point a woman approached me, visibly angry. Her husband is one of the last remaining detainees in Guantnamo, she said. He had escorted his sister to Afghanistan to marry an Arab fighter but was captured in Kandahar by the Americans. Eight years later, she is waiting for President Obama to close the prison and return her husband. Nearly half of the remaining detainees at Guantnamo are Yemeni; their transfers were halted after the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt. Said Ali al-Shihri, one of several former detainees who reportedly returned to terrorism after their release, is now deputy...
...good thing, but if jittery markets take a little inflation as a sign that the Fed has gone soft, the result could be a run on the dollar and out-of-control inflation. Bernanke is determined not to squander the Fed's hard-won credibility as an inflation fighter, so he's continuing to talk like one, even though he hasn't really started the fight...