[ Pentagon buries evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste ]
Black project funding. That’s where I’d hope most of it went.
OTOH, there’s non-essential personnel in D.C.....
I really don't think so. All those new high rise buildings in Tyson's Virginia, Rockville, etc. That's where the money went.
“Black project funding. That’s where I’d hope most of it went.”
Back in the Dark Ages my dad worked in R&D at the Pentagon. The General for whom he worked once wanted to get a black project up and running; but he didn’t have the cash for it, so he asked my dad to go down the hall and ask Gen’l XXXX in another office for some funds.
The discussion went something like this:
Lt Col dad: ‘General Betts wants to know if you will give him $500,000.’
General XXXX: ‘What’s it for?’
Lt Col dad: ‘I can’t tell you. It’s black and you don’t have the clearance.’
General XXXX: (thinks this over for about half a second) ‘Get the hell out of my office.’
which is about exactly what my dad expected to hear. He had no idea why his boss thought that funding scheme was gonna work.