Missile Defense Pork Barrel
According to a recent media report (Anchorage Daily News), the Senate Armed Forces Committee may thwart Bill Gates' freeze on Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) deployments in Alaska. The decision to halt the further development of GMD in Alaska at a level of 30 interceptors has encountered resistance in the committee and in particular Alaska's senators, Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich, support the deployment of 14 additional interceptors.