Thu Nov 15, 2018, 04:22 PM

Pentagon fails audit.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pentagon-audit-idUSKCN1NK2MC

"The Pentagon has failed what is being called its first-ever comprehensive audit, a senior official said on Thursday, finding U.S. Defense Department accounting discrepancies that could take years to resolve."

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Rather than continuing to throw money down this black hole, the Pentagon budget should be slashed after every year that it fails an audit. That way, maybe we can limit boondoggles like the F-35's.

https://www.cnbc.com/2014/07/31/how-dods-15-trillion-f-35-broke-the-air-force.html

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Pentagon fails audit. (Original post)	alwaysinasnit	Nov 2018	OP
Didn't they admit to losing track of 100s of billions of dollars, right before 9/11?	OAITW r.2.0	Nov 2018	#1
Seems like the Pentagon is very good at losing track of a lot of money.	alwaysinasnit	Nov 2018	#2
and	Sherman A1	Nov 2018	#3
What gets me is, how is it that the Pentagon got away with non-compliance of the 1990 law mandating	alwaysinasnit	Nov 2018	#4
It seems like 20 years ago or so they were paying $100 for each screw or something crazy like that.	LeftInTX	Nov 2018	#5
Yup. I remember something like that, and the bullshit justifications (something to the effect that	alwaysinasnit	Nov 2018	#6