Ashton Carter actually said...

If there's any kind of silver lining to this story, it is only this, that as between this story which was optimistic and the story that I painted last time of the JET estimate.

Context

Carter discusses the optimistic vs. realistic estimates of a defense program.

03/10/2010

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