General David Walker is a Clinton Appointee with a 15-year term. He was appointed in 1998..." GAO also announced Friday that the 24 major agencies covered under the 1990 Chief Financial Officers Act must form audit committees, but officials are still hammering out the details of that mandate.
The General has had three years to tighten up the way government agencies do their book-keeping and still has not done the job. Give him three more months to put a stop to the credit cards abuse; keep track of all money spent otherwise throw the man out and put better equipped people in his slot!
During the Clinton years Politically Correct people were given high profile jobs whether they were qualified or not. The problem of accounting deteriorated profoundly under them. Like kids in a candy shop, they spent wildly while improving their lifestyles with expensive new toys.
Some group ought to audit the GAO, which can't account for the money it spends; millions are lost in that department. The Education Department, HUD and Health and Welfare are trillions in unaccounted dollar abuse for starters, it isn't just the Pentagon.
Since Rumsfeld had the courage to start this, lets get behind him but demand the other governmental agencies clean up their departments. Make the heads of these departments disclose their books twice a year to the taxpaying public! President Bush made a huge mistake in 'throwing' more money into education without knowing where unaccounted for dollars were, that is one department that is truly egregious in its book keeping. Too many department heads get away with this sloppy bookkeeping; no private concern could stay in business with these criminal practices. Enron, it seems is but a small fish in a bigger pool of corruption.