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Lawmakers Friday slammed the Pentagon for reportedly allowing employees to make 10 million credit purchases worth $9 billion, sometimes to pay for nights on the town or shopping sprees, reports CBS News Correspondent Peter Maer.The credit card questions are the latest to suggest Pentagon management problems to emerge this week. In two reports, the General Accounting Office said the Defense Department was doing an incomplete job measuring its performance, and making potentially illegal late payments to contractors.In the past two years alone, there have been more than 500 purchase fraud cases filed involving military credit cards, according to information gathered by Sen. Charles Grassley s office. One bank company has been forced to write off $59 million in fraudulent debts from military cards. Putting It In ContextThe $9 billion in credit purchases represent 3 percent of the total Pentagon budget for 2001, with some of the charge occurring in earlier years. The Department of Defense employs nearly 669,000 civilians and 1.3 million active duty uniformed personnel.The 2001 military budget:Military personnel$75 billionOperations Maintenance$109 billionProcurement$60 billionResearch Development$37 bill
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