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Pentagon fails audit for sixth year in a row
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Posted on 11/16/2023 10:12:43 AM PST by navysealdad

The Pentagon failed an independent audit of its accounting systems for the sixth consecutive year, a Pentagon official said Wednesday.

"Things are showing progress, but it's not enough," Mike McCord, the Defense Department's chief financial officer, told reporters. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin thinks "we need to be doing better at this and moving faster."

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1 posted on 11/16/2023 10:12:43 AM PST by navysealdad
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To: navysealdad

Why bother to audit the Pentagon if there are no repercussions for repeated failures?


2 posted on 11/16/2023 10:18:48 AM PST by liberalh8ter ( Ephesians 6:10 - 18)
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To: liberalh8ter

Nothing can save private snuffy for losing his canteen cover. Yet these generals cam lose millions. In cash. On a pallet.


3 posted on 11/16/2023 10:25:31 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: navysealdad

911 conveniently took out a past audit and evidence.

here today, the black hat-”pentagon” protects Ukraine
more than the American people - despite the Constitution.

Americans inquire:
how much bigger than 911 will THIS FF be?


4 posted on 11/16/2023 10:29:13 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: navysealdad
From Reuters:

Fact Check: Rumsfeld did not reveal the loss of $2.3 trillion day before 9/11

"Misleading. Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld did not reveal that the Pentagon had lost $2.3 trillion the day before the September 11, 2001, attacks. The DoD had mentioned this number, which reflects transactions that could not be tracked, more than a year earlier."

Fact remains, DoD could not account for $2.3 trillion. Looks like 23 years later, nothing has been done. Then again, it makes it easier to say... lose a bunch of military hardware in places like Afghanistan, or divert money supposedly sent to help the people in Ukraine.

5 posted on 11/16/2023 10:40:27 AM PST by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: navysealdad

Probably can’t get the number of males and females on board to come out right.


6 posted on 11/16/2023 10:41:02 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ('Build Back Better' is a Bidenskyyyyyyism for 'we gotta get rid of all dem white peoples'.)
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To: navysealdad

I am assuming there is straight up embezzlement going on.


7 posted on 11/16/2023 10:47:15 AM PST by The Free Engineer
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To: navysealdad

Of course in the real world private contractors are debarred from future government contracts if they continually demonstrate an inability to implement effective containment, remedial, corrective, and preventive actions. Same as it ever was.


8 posted on 11/16/2023 10:47:37 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Make it a triangle. Something Newt once said.

The function needs to be moved in the country’s midsection for security purposes. No one would want to work there. A friend who worked at the Pentagon once told me that all the attractive women worked there amongst the high-ranking officers.


9 posted on 11/16/2023 10:50:06 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: navysealdad

What a surprise.

I wonder why some promotions are being held up?

Maybe it’s because they should be.

There’s no law saying weak, incompetent, cowardly, criminal officers can’t resign.


10 posted on 11/16/2023 10:53:00 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: navysealdad

If the accounting systems “worked” they couldn’t launder money through Ukrania


11 posted on 11/16/2023 11:16:02 AM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: The Free Engineer

BESIDES the gun running operation to the Taliban


12 posted on 11/16/2023 12:05:10 PM PST by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: liberalh8ter

I’ve worked at publicly traded companies. You are not allow “to fail” a single audit.

This government is pathetic. (And some of you think sending money to Ukraine is a lost cause. Sending it to Arlington is akin to throwing down a well.)


13 posted on 11/16/2023 12:26:25 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: navysealdad

Lobbyists have happy hour.


14 posted on 11/16/2023 3:00:57 PM PST by Vaduz (....)
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