Trump tweeted ‘billions of dollars’ would be saved on military contracts. Then the Pentagon fired the official doing that.
The Pentagon does not like to cut costs. The taxpayer is at best an afterthought.
The lesson here is clear. Go along and get along (on the taxpayer dime)or suffer the consequences. This a general rule for all government.
(From Yahoo News)
His treatment, he contends, was the direct result of his attempts to save the Pentagon money and identify potential contract fraud, which brought him into conflict with the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer. It was a conflict that ended dramatically, he says, when shortly after he emailed senior Pentagon officials about potential fraud, details about his travel records and his demotion were published in the press.
