Bill Hartung, Arms and Security Project, Center for International Policy

Chairman John McCain of the Senate Armed Services Committee says the Pentagon doesn't have a sequestration problem. Instead it has a spending problem. Bill Hartung...

Chairman John McCain of the Senate Armed Services Committee says the Pentagon doesn’t have a sequestration problem. Instead it has a spending problem. Bill Hartung is director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy and author of the report “Promising the Sky: Pork Barrell Politics and the F-35.” On In Depth with Francis Rose, he said the F-35 program is the perfect starting point for defense acquisition reform.

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