The Defense Department is seeking $17.2 billion to buy weapon systems and equipment "critical" to operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of a $65.3 billion supplemental spending request that will soon be provided to lawmakers, according to Pentagon documents and officials. Tina Jonas, the Defense Department's comptroller, is readying for Congress a 73-page justification of the Pentagon's fiscal year 2006 supplemental spending request that was broadly outlined by the White House in a letter to lawmakers on Feb. 16...
