Obama Reality Check–Pentagon Revolving Door Edition
Almost as soon as we hit “publish” on our last post on the Pentagon, we found further proof that the only change the military-industrial complex is likely to see in Obama’s administration is more of the stuff in our pockets. From the Wall Street Journal:
The Obama administration is expected to announce that it has offered the No. 2 job at the Pentagon to William Lynn, currently and executive at defense contractor Raytheon Co., according to people familiar with the situation.
According to these people, Lynn plans on accepting the post. He had been considered one of the front runners in recent weeks. Lynn, 55 years old, is a former comptroller of the Pentagon, a background that will come in handy as the defense budget comes under pressure. At Raytheon, Lynn is charged with heading the defense contractor’s Washington operations.
So this guy went from being the comptroller of the Pentagon–an agency so horrendously mismanaged, it can’t even perform an audit of its finances, let alone fail one–straight into a top job at a major arms maker. Now he’s heading right back through the revolving door again. Can the links between the DOD and the defense industry even be called a “complex” anymore? Or have they simply merged at this point?
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