CNN: Military budget plan accidentally ends up on Internet

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Flubbing Pentagon efforts to maintain strict secrecy, someone accidentally posted next year's military budget plan on the Internet.

Hundreds of pages of President Bush's defense budget proposal appeared Friday on the comptroller section of the Pentagon's Web site.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/01/30/budget.flub.ap/index.html

Looks like someone in the Pentagon isn't happy with the new budget?

Welcome to DU, Sparky McGruff! :hi: Thanks for posting the info! BWAHAHAHAHA!

did anyone get some of that...?

Not even mentioned on Slashdot. I'll keep looking, though.

I'll see if I can find it.

And decided to post it now instead of Tuesday.
Probably some privatized job run by a contracter.

Haele

Maybe we can figure out how a trillion dollars gets "misplaced".

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"WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration is seeking a big increase in spending for missile defense next year, setting the program on course to have a bare-bones system in place by the end of this year and up to 30 interceptors on land and at sea by the end of 2005.


The money is part of a proposed $401.7 billion Pentagon budget that doesn't include money for ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Officials last year went back to Congress for $87 billion beyond their budget to fund those missions, and documents obtained by The Associated Press show they expect to have to ask for money beyond this new budget as well.

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he proposal also includes more money for spare parts for Army vehicles such as tanks, armored personnel carriers and Humvees: $20.1 million instead of $17.9 million. Soldiers have complained that using the vehicles so heavily in the harsh environment of Iraq has caused them to break down more frequently. There is also a slight increase for ammunition.

Personnel needs, including salaries and benefits, were put at $105 billion, up from $98.3 billion this year. Other major categories in the $401.7 billion total include $141 billion for operation and maintenance; $70 billion for research, development and testing; $5.3 billion for construction and $4.2 billion for family housing.

The Pentagon request is part of an overall $2.3 trillion budget that Bush will propose.

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Man, dats one sick pResident y'all got

Bush's Legacy will be leaving the USA broke and hated.

Junior's doing a better job of ruining the USA than Osama could have ever thought or dreamed of!

Yes, we know he's sick little prick*

made common knowledge this might be better than the Pentagon Papers.