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Walter Pincus

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Washington, D.C.
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Columnist for The Cipher Brief after 40+ years with The Washington Post. Taught at Yale and Stanford. Author of book "Blown To Hell," about U.S. nuclear testing
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Congress Questions Pentagon Spending—and the Future of Trump’s Battleship

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By Walter Pincus Verified
| The Cipher Brief Verified
“I’m deeply concerned that the Presidential proposal for $350 billion mandatory funding [to be carried in a reconciliation bill and not an appropriations bill] for defense will have no Appropriations [Committee] input on the enactment. That’s not the right way to fund the Department of Defense, because it took the Department ten months to explain to Congress how they were going to spend the $150 billion in mandatory funding they received last year.
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From Bombing Iran to Negotiating: Trump Explains His Red Line

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By Walter Pincus Verified
| The Cipher Brief Verified
“I had to stop them [the Iranians] because if they had a nuclear weapon, they would use it. And you want to see bedlam, let them blow up a couple of cities someplace, like they would've blown up Israel. If it weren't for me, Israel would not exist today, because I terminated the Barack Hussein Obama deal, the JCPOA (the 2015 international agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear program), which was a road to a nuclear weapon. They [the Iranians] would've had it five years ago.
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Can the Pentagon Buy Faster Before the Next War Arrives?

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By Walter Pincus Verified
| The Cipher Brief Verified
“The reasons why DoD (the Defense Department) accepts flawed business cases are both structural and cultural in nature. Poor acquisition decisions are compounded by a budget planning process that requires DoD to secure long-range funding commitments before a program’s business case is fully understood.
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