Elizabeth Warren unveils plan to stop 'corruption' at the Pentagon by hunterw
WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a four-point plan on Thursday to combat what she described as “an intense coziness between giant defense corporations and our Department of Defense.” Warren, who is running for president, announced the proposal in a blog post, saying it would help shut the “revolving door” between the federal government and military contractors while trimming our “bloated defense budget.
Warren described the influence of defense contractors as “wrong,” “wasteful,” and “bad for our national security.” Warren’s plan would “ban giant defense contractors from hiring senior DOD officials and general and flag officers for four years after they leave the department.” In her blog post, Warren pointed out that “the top 20 defense contractors hired 645 former senior government officials, top military brass, members of Congress, and senior legislative staff as lobbyists, board members, or senior executives” last year. She described this as “corruption, plain and simple.
Under Warren’s proposal, senior Defense Department officials would be barred from “owning or trading any stock of giant defense contractors.” It would also make it illegal for national security officials to work for foreign governments after their tenure and require defense contractors to “disclose the true scope of their lobbying activities — including who they’re meeting with at the DOD, what they’re lobbying about, and what information they’re sharing.
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