Watchdog: Coburn report IDs $68 billion in DOD spending cuts

By Mark Flatten

Published November 15, 2012 5:00am ET

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Watchdog: Coburn report IDs $68 billion in DOD spending cuts — Billions for beef jerky. Not one penny from defense. It’s not quite that bad. But the Pentagon is squandering billions of dollars annually on everything from its own brand of beef jerky and microbreweries to religious debates involving mythical Klingons from the TV show “Star Trek,” according to a scathing report on military spending issued […]

Billions for beef jerky. Not one penny from defense.

It’s not quite that bad. But the Pentagon is squandering billions of dollars annually on everything from its own brand of beef jerky and microbreweries to religious debates involving mythical Klingons from the TV show “Star Trek,” according to a scathing report on military spending issued today by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.

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