Just call the Biden School of Making it Big in Government. And do it today.
Posted on 01/12/2024 9:13:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind
According to a report by the Pentagon inspector general, more than 40,000 weapons worth more than $1 billion were shipped to Ukraine but never made it to the battlefield.
Many of the weapons were sent to a U.S. military logistics hub in Poland, while others were shipped directly to Ukraine. The equipment includes shoulder-fired missiles, kamikaze drones, and night-vision goggles.
Alexandra "Sasha" Baker, the acting undersecretary of defense for policy, said last November, when a draft of the report was leaked, that required accounting procedures “are not practical in a dynamic and hostile wartime environment."
The IG report found that "American defense officials and diplomats in Washington and Europe had failed to quickly or fully account for many of the nearly 40,000 weapons that by law should have been closely monitored because of their battlefield impact, sensitive technology, and relatively small size," according to the New York Times.
I guess they were too busy, or something.
“These are identified as the items — that because of their sensitivity, their vulnerability to diversion or misuse or the consequences of that — it’s particularly important to have this additional tracking and accountability in place,” said Robert Storch, the Pentagon’s inspector general. Storch is the primary watchdog for American aid sent to Ukraine’s war effort.
The report was sent to Congress on Wednesday and a copy of it was provided to The New York Times. The Pentagon’s inspector general released a redacted version of it on Thursday. It did not investigate whether any weapons had been diverted for illicit use, which “was beyond the scope of our evaluation to determine,” it noted.
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“”Perhaps before we send another $60 billion to Ukraine, we might want to put into place more effective means to track the weapons — just as Congress has demanded.””
You think? I can’t think of any less needed position in any government agency than an Inspector General. It’s like closing the barn door after the horse has been stolen. There is nothing PROactive about the position but I guess that’s the way it’s meant to be. Doesn’t make sense to me. What do they do when they’re not writing reports about things gone awry?
>> How can we believe ANYTHING coming out of our government?
And MSM
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Try gaza or the Westbank.
Just call the Biden School of Making it Big in Government. And do it today.
Here's an article about a woman charged with scamming $100M out of the Army:
https://nypost.com/2024/01/11/news/texas-woman-janet-yamanaka-mello-accussed-of-defrauding-us-army/
They’ll be distributed to the hordes coming across our border.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gun-control-red-flag-laws-bipartisan-progress-graham-blumenthal/
Lindsay Graham led a delegation of US Senators....5 Repubs and 5 Dems.... to Israel. Maryland Democrat Ben Cardin, Rhode Island Democratic Jack Reed, Alaska Republican Dan Sullivan, Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, Susan Collins (Maine Republican), Cory Booker (New Jersey Democrat), Katie Britt (Alabama Republican), Chris Coons, Delaware Senator, John Thune, SDakota Senator.
Israeli Leader Yair Lapid (center) asked for and received billions more US military aid.
No, you can guarantee those weapons remained in Europe and are now in the possession of some of Europe's newer arrivals.
Why does the vision of the recruitment scene in blazing saddles popping into my mind with the comment “badges? We don’t need no stinking badges”. I guess today it would be “weapons. We don’t need no stinking weapons!”
Even Stevie Wonder saw this coming.
The weapons are exactly where they wanted them to be, just not where they were supposed to be.
A non issue.
No Problem, they'll be returned to America in the near future.
“They ended up in Gaza.”
Who knows if they ever even left our borders?
The military-age men pouring across our border will need weapons when it’s time to try to scuttle Biden’s 2024 election defeat.
Great question, kind of like Obama’s gun running to Mexico…..
Exactly. I’ll bet much never left direct US control, before disappearing.
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