Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget » (REPRINT)

Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles, this is a thorough, astonishing expose of the "Black Budget"—a 36-billion-dollar cache used by the Pentagon to fund its own agenda of top-secret weapons and wars.

Publishers Weekly

The origin, growth and uses of the Pentagon's secret treasury are detailed here--Weiner examines the Stealth bomber, the MILSTAR satellite system and a virtual hidden army within the U.S. Army. ``This hard-hitting expose of power out of control . . . is well documented,'' said PW. ``It reveals how the executive office, the Pentagon and the CIA have squandered billions of dollars.'' (July)