“There definitely wasn’t enough auditing in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
War zones can be lax. Sometimes the problem is with locals whose cooperation you want. Sometimes it’s our own people looking to enrich themselves and figuring that no one will notice. It may take time but often someone does notice.
My dad was in the Army from WWII through the beginnings of Vietnam. In WWII as the Army was moving quickly sometimes there were supply depots where items were simply piled up in huge heaps and you could take what you needed- quartermasters weren’t always able to set up an accounting system quickly enough. In Vietnam you were dealing with a different problem. Locals who wanted to get paid off. American contractors who diverted funds or sold equipment.
Talk about government accounting, am reading another thread about the NSA and its British counterpart...
“Behind the Zircon [brit spy satellite]scandal was deception. The government had previously been caught hiding weapons expenditure using false accounting. They then promised to report, in secret if needed, on any project costing more than £250 million (about $400 million). No sooner was this promise made than it was broken for GCHQ’s purposes. Operating Zircon would also have raised GCHQ’s costs by one third.”
I miss Robert Ludlum. Here’s the thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3320299/posts
Maybe this administration is NOT spending all that money on welfare and o-care?