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I'm Dave Davies.
Few institutions are as revered in the United States as the us military.
Our guest, Washington Post reporter Craig Whitlock, has spent much of the last ten years investigating a shameful and very recent chapter in the history of the United States Navy.
It's a case in which hundreds of senior officers on active duty accepted perks and payoffs from a defense contractor who in turn made tens of millions of dollars overcharging for his services with their help.
There's a colorful conman at the heart of this story, a charming rogue whose company provided services to ships docked in asian ports, including tugboat escorts, security, food, water, bilge pump, and more.
He had a talent for seducing navy commanders into helping him, metaphorically and literally, with trips, lavish gifts, gourmet meals, fine wines, and often, sex workers, sometimes in such numbers that one party was described as a roman orgy.
The contractor, Leonard Glen Francis, was a six foot three glad hander who struggled with obesity and was often referred to by his navy friends, at least behind his back, as fat Leonardo.
In reporting the story, Whitlock doggedly pursued information about the scandal that the Navy did its best to keep hidden.
He filed dozens of public records requests and a federal lawsuit, and was able, through his own sources, to accumulate a breathtaking amount of detail about the revels of Navy officers with the contractor and the sprawling criminal case that followed.
Craig Whitlock is an investigative reporter for the Washington Post who specializes in national security issues.
Hes covered the Pentagon, served as Berlin bureau chief, and reported from more than 60.
He was last on fresh air to discuss his book on secret government documents about the war in Afghanistan.