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Pentagon Strategy Office Is Denounced as Politicized “Slush Fund”

Pentagon Strategy Office Is Denounced as Politicized “Slush Fund”

Whistleblower was investigated for a family bar mitzvah in Israel

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Former Pentagon and White House official Adam Lovinger. Photo: Eye to Eye Video

The Pentagon’s strategy office, the Office of Net Assessment, hasn’t produced a net assessment in 15 years and instead is wasting millions of dollars and breaking government rules by hiring politically connected and compromised government contractors.

And those who dare blow the whistle on that or other similar problems risk having their careers and reputations destroyed by “deep state” operatives.

Those are the two scandals at the heart of a new book, “The Insider Threat: How the Deep State Undermines America from Within,” by Adam Lovinger, who worked for a dozen years at the Pentagon and the White House.

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