Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than 200 subpoenas. As many as 100 defense contracts subject to cancellation. Tens of billions of dollars at stake. All last week, the revelations coming out of the FBI and Naval Investigative Service probe code- named Operation Ill Wind continued to mushroom into the biggest and most important Pentagon scandal ever...
...heart of the mess lies the so-called Iron Triangle, the web of cozy relationships among Pentagon officials, defense consultants and military contractors. The scandal has shed light not only on a few suspected of corruption but on an entire system that seems tailor-made for cheating. It has become common practice for top military men to retire and head straight for consulting companies -- sometimes known as Beltway bandits or rent-a-general firms -- where they sell their expertise and contacts to defense contractors...
...House Armed Services Committee planned hearings on the spreading scandal starting this week; the Senate Armed Services Committee will follow in July. Both disclaimed any idea of interfering with the Ill Wind investigation. Their focus will be on determining whether the Pentagon needs new contracting procedures to guard against the kind of massive fraud that Ill Wind seems to be turning...
...curbing financial abuses, any sharp-eyed Congressman knows how to get around them. Free vacations and meals, overstuffed campaign chests and large fees for giving speeches or sometimes for just showing up at an event are routine. Kinsley's Law, named for New Republic Editor Michael Kinsley, says the scandal in Washington is not what's illegal, it's what's legal...
...Baker and Griscom are both going off from the White House. It seems unfortunate to lose such good men when scandal is rampant in the Federal Government. There is, however, another point to be made. Baker and Griscom came to help Ronald Reagan in his worst time, and they steadied the Administration and nudged it off again in the right direction. There are too many rascals to count right now in Washington, but we too often lose sight of the fact that the city has many more good folk who step up and serve honestly and honorably. Most of these...