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Astounding. that is the really ugly story here. nobody is supervising it. no one test ran this thing. no one is paying attention. and the american taxpayers now get hit with a billion dollars. >> i think it's raising huge questions about the federal contracting system no doubt because we know that many of the people who were involved in this were sort of on retainer for the federal government. they didn't go through what would be a normal bidding process for this. and now all of these ceilings on the contracts are just being passed right through. and government watchdog groups are very concern...

Contracts for this. >> and, to me, that is astounding. that is the really ugly story here. nobody is supervising it. no one test ran this thing. no one is paying attention. and the american taxpayers now get hit with a billion dollars. >> i think it's raising huge questions about the federal contracting system no doubt because we know that many of the people who were involved in this were sort of on retainer for the federal government. they didn't go through what would be a normal bidding process for this. and now all of these ceilings on the contracts are just being passed right through. and ...

$19.6 million that the united states is giving to afghanistan, over the past three years, only $1 billion, which is 5% of the u.s. money, is being given to the afghan government. yes, there is waste and corruption, but a lot of it has nothing to do with the afghan government. it is the contracting system. >> what is worrisome to congress, to americans, is that it's not, oh, there's corruption in the government because governments do have their corruption parts. it's that the president is corrupt. that he, you know, was corrupt from the election on, that he's trying to help his friends. that's ...

The course of a decade. next, we've been scouring the budget, line by line, identifying more than $20 billion in savings this year alone. we've cut or eliminated scores of outmoded or ineffective programs and begun to reform our bloated contracting system. we've also successfully challenged the custom in congress of courting favored contractors by approving weapons systems the pentagon itself said that it doesn't want or need. because in these hard times, we have to save where we can afford so that we can pay for what we need, the same way families do. finally, i have proposed a freeze in gove...

It's what helped lead to the balanced budgets of the 1990s. in fact, it was only by abandoning pay as you go that record surpluses turned into record deficits during the course of a decade. next, we've been scouring the budget line by line, identifying more than $20 billion in savings this year alone. we've cut or eliminated scores of outmoded or ineffective programs and begun to reform our bloated contracting system. we've also successfully challenged the custom in congress courting favored contractors by approving weapons systems. the pentagon itself said it doesn't want or need because in t...