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- iHaveNet.com: Politics
by Paul Bedard
The pathetically predicable failure of the House-Senate debt "super committee" to do as ordered and produce
The super committee's failure means that Defense, already near the end of developing a new strategy that accounts for President Obama's promise to slash
While other cabinet departments are banking on
Pentagon officials feel that the 12-member super committee didn't understand how important getting a deal done was to the
But now that any deficit reduction plan looks dead, the Pentagon is changing its strategy to include 100 percent more in budget cuts, a path endorsed by Obama. The so-called
So what could happen?
An extremely frustrated Panetta suggests these reductions could occur: Space initiatives would be cut, saving
And oh, adds Panetta, "While large cuts are being imposed, the threats to national security would not be reduced."
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