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Jon Stewart: “They don't even look at the real corruption at the…”

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Published | Video Starts at 18:40

You know, everybody talks about waste, fraud and abuse as though that's only done from people down the chain. People that get, you know, food stamps and all those things. They don't even look at the real corruption at the contractor level, at the subsidy level. John, the Pentagon, I voted against this. But Congress is going to pass a trillion dollar for the military. The Pentagon never passed an audit. Exactly. (18:40–18:46)

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Asserts that corruption at the contractor and subsidy levels is often overlooked.

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