“For one of Romney’s most important advisers on Navy issues, a man who oversaw a massive naval expansion for Pres. Ronald Reagan, there’s more at stake than U.S. national security. John Lehman, an investment banker and former secretary of the Navy, has strong and complex personal financial ties to the naval shipbuilding industry. That doesn’t mean that a bigger or better Navy is necessarily a bad idea. But it does complicate Romney’s claim that a larger Navy would merely be ‘matched to the interests we need to protect.’ A bigger maritime force has the possibility of personally enriching one of the candidate’s top advisers. In fact, it already has.”

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/10/big-business-romneys-navy/all/

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