Flashback:
– Pentagon Cannot Account For 2,3 TRILLION Dollars (Video):
“The Day Before 9/11 Secretary Of Defense Donald Rumsfeld Declared That The Pentagon Cannot Account For $2,3 Trillion”
– $10 Trillion Missing From Pentagon And No One — Not Even the DoD — Knows Where It Is:
Over a mere two decades, the Pentagon lost track of a mind-numbing $10 trillion — that’s trillion, with a fat, taxpayer-funded “T” — and no one, not even the Department of Defense, knows where it went or on what it was spent.
Even though audits of all federal agencies became mandatory in 1996, the Pentagon has apparently made itself an exception, and — fully 20 years later — stands obstinately orotund in never having complied.
Because, as defense officials insist — summoning their best impudent adolescent — an audit would take too long and, unironically, cost too much.
“Over the last 20 years, the Pentagon has broken every promise to Congress about when an audit would be completed,” Rafael DeGennaro, director of Audit the Pentagon, toldThe Guardian recently. “Meanwhile, Congress has more than doubled the Pentagon’s budget.”
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H/t reader squodgy:
“Now here’a a really good scam.
If you want to earn Ten thousand thousand MILLION (PERFECTLY LAUNDERED) Dollars which can never be found, sign up for contracts with the US Military at the illustrious Pentagon.
Honestly, nobody even bothers to ask. From either side!!!!
And it’s all paid for by the sad old middle class!!!!”
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