Weiner,T. Blank Check. 1991
Weiner, Tim. Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget. New York: Warner
Books, 1991. 273 pages.
This book is based on Tim Weiner's Pulitzer Prize-winning series in the
Philadelphia Inquirer. By following the money, Weiner finds appropriations
of public dollars for highly-compartmentalized, secret research projects
with no accountability to either Congress or the Secretary of Defense. The
secret budget has never been published, a violation of Article 1, Section 9
of the Constitution.
Reagan doubled the Pentagon budget between 1981 and 1985, and by 1991
Bush had increased the "black" portion to 25 percent. Born from the Manhattan
Project, described by Weiner as a "mutant chromosome in the American body
politic," this secret operation is now a full-blown parallel government.
Weiner shows the secret government at work in diverting funds illegally,
creating military units outside the chain of command, conducting covert
wars, and transforming Star Wars into a system for the control of space.
This book is a solidly-documented description of how the U.S. responded to
atomic weapons and the Cold War by giving birth to, nurturing, and
ultimately succumbing to a national security state.
-- Lanny Sinkin
ISBN 0-446-39275-8
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