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The US armed services are spending more money than they are permitted to do by law in their efforts to maintain and continue to operate many weapons systems, the GAO reported.
And next this evening, the former air force intelligence specialist, who defected to iran, against the u.s. now, she's been charged espionage. monica witt worked for the air force and then as a contractor. she's now tonight accused of betraying the u.s. and her former colleagues. did she reveal missions, did she reveal officers' names? here's abc's chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz tonight. >> reporter: it is an extraordinary espionage indictment. monica witt, a former air force counterintelligence specialist, not only charged with spying, but defecting to iran. the texas nativ...
Some problems. conservatives are happy there's budget here for pentagon programs but everybody on the right side of the aisle is upset that the text, the language coming out so close to an actual vote tomorrow. just a little while ago, i was in the elevator with lindsey graham. he asked me what i was working on. i said i was figuring out what is in the budget. he said he was, too. that is frustration by his own party's whip, john cornyn. >> $1.3 trillion in spending and four people deciding it. it's not a good way to do business and i hope to do it better in the future. it's not very transpare...
Commissioning process. is this the way we really want to go? i think it's unsettling. it's destabilizing and possibly disruptive potentially good effects from that. where this is all going -- >> appears to be what he's trying to do whether with china or putin saying we can be friends but we're not going to be friends on your terms apparently based on what happened yesterday. nick, these tweets and we'll get into this in a second, but these tweets about lockheed has cost the company well over $1 billion talking about the f-35. the f-35 has been written up a year or two ago. one of the most wast...
Some of the tension points between the pentagonen and the dod before. john mccain other senators come out and heaped a lot of praise but said this is going to be a hearing about barack obama's defense capacity and his own strategic thinking not carter. >> you were talking about the intelligence within the pentagon. i keep thinking about the need for human intelligence in places like syria, iraq libya, et. cetera. when it's important fight isis but have information. is that going to change any time? how do you get a ground intelligence when it's a very difficult ground you're dealing with? >> t...