Reply #2: Friends in High Places

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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/expose/episode204/watch.html

Vanity Fair pulls back the curtain on SAIC, the largest government contractor you've never heard of. Science Applications International Corporation has a workforce of 44,000, annual revenues that reached $8 billion in 2006, and a list of current and former board members that reads like a who's who of political and military heavyweights. How is it that even though "several of SAIC's biggest projects have turned out to be colossal failures," the company always manages to get paid?