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369 | Steve Drummond: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win WWII

The Realignment

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The Balance Between Secrecy and Openness in Accountability

The Truman Committee's failures stem from the limits that a congressional investigation can accomplish. Sometimes Truman would find something very, very wrong going on in the war program. The Pentagon learned during the war, they could shut him down by saying,. national security, top secret, we can't talk about that.

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