The Pentagon’s Revolving Door With Weapons Makers Under Trump

FEATURING MANDY SMITHBERGER – Outgoing Defense Secretary James Mattis was replaced at the beginning of this year by his Deputy Defense Secretary, Patrick Shanahan. Shanahan, until as recently as 2017, was a high-level executive at Boeing corporation – one of the leading weapons manufacturers in the US. In fact he worked at Boeing for 30 years.

There has always been a revolving door between arms manufacturers and the US government. But under President Donald Trump, has that revolving door been spinning out of control?

Read the article by Smithberger HERE.

Mandy Smithberger director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO).