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Pentagon Can't Account for $6.5 TRILLION [in spending]
Sputnik News ^ | 09 August 2016

Posted on 08/09/2016 5:46:39 PM PDT by Lorianne

Despite a 1996 law requiring all federal agencies to conduct regular spending audits, the Pentagon has so far failed to conduct a single one. While US lawmakers have pressed the DoD to comply by September of 2017, a new inspector general’s report indicates that meeting this deadline is highly unlikely.

Army and Defense Finance and Accounting Service Indianapolis personnel did not adequately support $2.8 trillion in third quarter adjustments and $6.5 trillion in year-end adjustments made to Army General Fund (AGF) data during FY 2015 financial statement compilation," the report reads.

In common language, the Pentagon has no idea how it spent nearly $7 trillion.

(Excerpt) Read more at sputniknews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: audit; audits; bhodod; cultureofcorruption; defensespending; dod; military; pentagon; usmilitary
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To: blueunicorn6

Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, is the accounting dept. for the DOD. Once upon a time, the second largest building after the Pentagon in the US military world.


21 posted on 08/09/2016 6:00:06 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: butlerweave

GMTA


22 posted on 08/09/2016 6:00:39 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: Lorianne

Ask the Muslim living in our White House where the money went.


23 posted on 08/09/2016 6:02:22 PM PDT by Gator113 ( Go Trump, Go! Just livin' life my way. Don't worry, everything's gonna be alright. 👍 &#1)
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To: AFreeBird

Yep.

Been there.


24 posted on 08/09/2016 6:04:37 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Lorianne

It’s right there with Hillary’s Rose Law Firm billing records.


25 posted on 08/09/2016 6:05:22 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: SubMareener

The tunneling machine was replaced by Stargate technology years ago.


26 posted on 08/09/2016 6:06:15 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Lorianne

$6.5 Trillion accounting error? This is why Trump scares the hell out of them.


27 posted on 08/09/2016 6:09:14 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Trump IS the revolution)
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To: Lorianne

I guess we’re back to the day’s of a $1,000,000 hammer,


28 posted on 08/09/2016 6:09:32 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: Lorianne

I wonder what a bank would do if I claimed to be a millionaire, just didn’t know where it was, and still wanted to take out a loan?


29 posted on 08/09/2016 6:11:17 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Lorianne

They probably built a few SR74’s that go mach 16 while being carried by an SR 75 to 80k at 3000 and then dropped.
Read Michael SAla,learn whats really out there.


30 posted on 08/09/2016 6:11:35 PM PDT by rodguy911
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To: Talisker

shape is different....


31 posted on 08/09/2016 6:12:26 PM PDT by rodguy911
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To: pocat

ping


32 posted on 08/09/2016 6:13:14 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: butlerweave

Black projects are funded by CIA slush funds and direct funding from the treasury beyond congress.


33 posted on 08/09/2016 6:13:40 PM PDT by rodguy911
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To: rodguy911
shape is different....

Lol, don't you be keeping me up at night...

34 posted on 08/09/2016 6:16:59 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Lorianne

That’s why Hillary wants to raise taxes on the middle class. They can loose money better than we can.


35 posted on 08/09/2016 6:17:39 PM PDT by just me (GOD BLESS AMERICA Amen)
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To: Talisker

There have been rumors for the past few years about the US Space Force and two spaceships, the USS Jefferson and the USS Lewis & Clark.


36 posted on 08/09/2016 6:19:20 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Lorianne

I don’t believe this. Billion? Likely. Trillion? I don’t think so.


37 posted on 08/09/2016 6:21:32 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Lorianne

I remember seeing a report on this years ago showing the unaccounted funds for all departments.

HHS was by far the largest offender w/40% of its budget unaccounted for. DoD was <10%.


38 posted on 08/09/2016 6:25:25 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: Lorianne
The cumulative total is of accounting errors and omissions, not of money missing. Each dollar appropriated to the Pentagon goes through numerous transfers and multiple accounting entries before it is spent. This results resulting in complicated book keeping that is prone to confusion and error.

When money and assets go missing, accounting and retrieval systems go into effect to track them down. Waste and poor management may be common, but outright theft is rare. And it should be noted that the article source -- Sputnik -- is part of the Kremlin's propaganda effort. Exaggerating problems and undermining confidence in the US military in a key objective for them.

39 posted on 08/09/2016 6:25:46 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Lorianne

Trillions cannot be accounted for?
>>>>>>ISIS seems to have all the mullah they need.....


40 posted on 08/09/2016 6:30:30 PM PDT by doc maverick
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