Senator Faces Inquiry After Video Questions Pentagon Spending, Not War Funding
When Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) dared to release a video questioning the Pentagon's opaque accounting and its ever-ballooning budget, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) predictably leapt to brand it 'seditious.' For context, this is the same Senator Johnson who, according to OpenSecrets.org, received over $18,000 from defense industry PACs in the 2022 election cycle. Apparently, scrutinizing where billions
in taxpayer money actually goes is 'seditious,' but unquestioningly funneling it into the military-industrial complex is 'patriotism.' One might wonder if Johnson's outrage about 'seditious' videos extends to the countless public relations campaigns by defense giants like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, who rake in billions from the Pentagon while underperforming on contracts. Or perhaps the only
sedition that matters is asking for accountability, rather than tacitly endorsing a system where billions vanish into a black hole of 'classified' expenditure, only to resurface in the form of lavish corporate profits. How's that for fiscal responsibility?