At a time when many Republicans argue the Defense Department cannot afford new spending cuts, Mr. Coburn, Congress's top waste-watcher, released a report Thursday arguing that in fact the Pentagon is awash in billions of dollars of non-security spending that should be cut.
"The American people expect the Pentagon's $600 billion annual budget to go toward our nation's defense," the Oklahoma Republican said. "That isn't happening. Billions of defense dollars are being spent on programs and missions that have little or nothing to do with national security, or are already being performed by other government agencies."
Mr. Coburn said that over the next decade, the Defense Department will spend $6 billion on non-military research, $9 billion on running grocery stores, and some $37 billion on support and supply services that could better be done by civilians or the private sector.
Among the more curious spending was:
- $300,000 spent by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to fund Brown University's research into archaeopteryx, the 150-million-year-old early bird, in which the researchers determined the creature likely had black feathers.
- an Office of Naval Research research project that helped spawn Caffeine Zone 2, an iPhone application that tells people how to schedule their coffee breaks.
- $1.5 million to develop a special new roll-up beef jerky, which Mr. Coburn said was funded by taking money out of a weapons program.
- $100,000 for a 2011 workshop on interstellar space travel that included a session entitled "Did Jesus die for Klingons too?" The session probed how Christian theology would apply in the event of the discovery of aliens.
He said the military now has more generals and admirals per troop than it did at the height of the Cold War. He recommended cutting 200 generals and admirals, which he said would also cut 800 support personnel, for a savings of $800 million over the next decade.
The Pentagon must never find the right word to describe what it does. It needs even more vaguely named patches for its leaks.
The MK Ultra program (derived from Operation Often) learned to make its hundreds of sub-projects not only secret with cover names but nearly every trace would be based on some hidden conceit or other. With the development of civilian programming whole cover programs could be created and those entrapped would usually go along with whatever it was. For example, anyone caught in Monarch experiments who becomes a refusenik could be "cooled out" into the arms of a therapist, false friend, media envelope, or some local support group under some pretext, because refuseniks are more interesting than converts. Hopeless cases could be given Seroquel, the idea being that the side effects of the drug are the very effects that are desired, to chill out the mark to the point of intellectual catatonia. The most interesting cases could be "promoted" to the next "level" of this game. Make no mistake, it is for the military domination of the planet, with measures or countermeasures you can only guess at if you understand Monarch programming at least from what has been written by others.
Failures, refuseniks, for the program at this level are likely to risk being "thrown from the freedom train" (look that up) or more likely be handed on again to a program so secret I do not know its name. If you are at this level you might find you sneeze for no good reason 6 times every so often. Perhaps at the same time in someone's shift at Fort Meade for the the NSA does this sort of thing on behalf of the Pentagon, and I guess GCHQ is the UK variety, I hope so, I say I am "protected by the Moat" in the hope Fort Monkton will remember it is better to have a volunteer thinking he is working for his own country. You might wonder if you have avoided people and TV for a few days, is the NSA using some sort of electromagnetic induction able to make me sneeze six times to see if I am still within "range". Don't ask me why, but weeks before a quizzed technician on my property boundary told me 8 satellites could see his stick and to an error of 12 mm. And when things became inexplicable in desperation I placed a compass by each bed I sleep in. I claim an electromagnetic maser laser thermo-baric tetra tesla type (I don't know what )takes place such an attack in the dark I think I see a compass needle swing in short movements or pulses. That seemed to me to represent an experimental provocation. And I don't even get a T-shirt or button badge.
And I should be paid for all of this, It can be worse, and no real acknowledgement from anyone, and I have written like this to Oversight Committees and suchlike. But worse things happen at sea and I do not think results would be valid if I assumed there was no risk. So the country needs this sort of work to be done but cannot admit to it. Every possible scenario needs countermeasures and so you can expect all sorts of fronts, covers, levers, hinges, pastimes, hobbies, groups, activities, offers, you name it. For a Pentagon under pressure it would do whatever it takes to surround everyone for the sake of not letting a future enemy through any "...net" The trouble is it has to be kept secret. No one knows what to do with an experimental victim whao can reconstruct the experiment through having blinding reserach skills and multiple involvenmnets over the years..suggesting one lot does not have the monopoly it thinks it has maybe?
Sadly I am a civilian caught up in this since that net caught me in 2002, a couple of years ago and if I think back far enough
1980 and 1986. In fact the point with Monarch programming is that if you are sensitised enough to notice stuff today, you might have been touched by the program...or one of it's hundreds of sub-projects, as an infant. Sadly, because Richard Helms decided to burn all the records in 1973 we are all suspect, and will need projects galore to be reacquired. Google "Tim Baber" to read what else I have put together about the Pentegon. Did you know the 7/7 bus bombing in London was right outside the Tavistock Institute? Google the "Tavistock Institute" with "Monarch programming". Oh I do hope I do not turn out to be an orphan as well.