Defense department waste: 15 years on the big problem list:
Congress Growing Impatient With Longtime 'High Risk' Areas of Financial Waste (washingtonpost.com): "I happen to believe that part of the problem in the Defense Department is the built-in incest, and that is that if you look around the country to see who runs all of the major manufacturing companies, many of them are people that have been in the Department of Defense -- and this has been the kind of a policy that's been followed for a long period of time,' he said. 'They work in the department, they make a lot of friends, they leave the department, they go to work for major corporations, and this ball just keeps being batted back and forth.' "