First ever audit in the history of the PENTAGON is happening UNDER TRUMP...how is that a BAD THING?

[Windparadox]

Paid site. Can't see the article.

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Check your browser settings. The Washington Post is NOT a paid site.

 

[J.E.D]

I love that when President Trump says he is going to do something HE DOES IT!

....like just happening to be president when something goes into effect that congress ordered under the previous president

 

[jc456]

I love that when President Trump says he is going to do something HE DOES IT!

....like just happening to be president when something goes into effect that congress ordered under the previous president

again, it appears the best thing that happened to this country is obummer left the presidency. all kinds of shit happening good for us. hmmmmmm maybe obummer wasn't that good at his job.

 

[JBond]

Why didnt OBAMA DEMAND an audit of the Pentagon be performed during his administration?

Don't nearly all liberals agree the Pentagon is a spending black hole?

Isn't an audit of the PENTAGON a GOOD THING?

The POUTS can demand anything he wants, but unless Congress pays for it, it will not happen.

In the 2010 NDAA congress gave the DOD 7 years to prepare, there was nothing any POTUS could do about that.

Quit being such a fucking partisan hack and just be glad it is happening at all. Why the fuck must everything be about party with you, are you that pathetic of a human being?

Wait, never mind...no need to answer, we all know what the answer is.

An even older document, the Constitution, demands a “regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money.”

Thanks for playing.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money

Why did you shorten the sentence?

"regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time."

 

[Windparadox]

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Related; "How did the Pentagon lose over $6.5 TRILLION in taxpayer dollars?"

 

[JBond]

regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money

Why did you shorten the sentence?

"regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time."

Remind me, when was the last audit? From time to time or never?

 

[Spare_change]

Liberals LOVE to use MILITARY spending as the only Federal Spending to be reduced.


Why didn't OBAMA do this during his 8 years in office?




"The Defense Department is starting the first agency-wide financial audit in its history," the Pentagon's news service says, announcing that it's undertaking an immense task that has been sought, promised and delayed for years.

Of the tally that is starting this week, chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana W. White said, "It demonstrates our commitment to fiscal responsibility and maximizing the value of every taxpayer dollar that is entrusted to us."

"Beginning in 2018, our audits will occur annually, with reports issued Nov. 15," the Defense Department's comptroller, David L. Norquist, said.

The Defense Department has famously never been audited, despite receiving hundreds of billions of dollars annually and having more than $2.2 trillion in assets.

Pentagon Announces First-Ever Audit Of The Department Of Defense

I can only imagine the WASTE we are going to find! I love that when President Trump says he is going to do something HE DOES IT!

The operative word is "IMAGINE"

The headline is disingenuous, at best, and a downright falsehood, at worst.

To suggest that DoD has never had financial audits is ludicrous. To suggest that a "agency-wide" audit is going to find anything substantial, is, naive and simplistic.

DoD is subject to the most rigorous checks and balances in the world. Nobody - not the federal government, not your local government, not your company - is restricted in its negotiations the way DoD is. It is these very restrictions that drive UP the cost of projects, not lower them.

But, hey, if it will make you happy - we will spend millions of dollars doing audits, we will investigate to the ends of the earth, we will find nothing - and everybody will claim the fix is still in.

Have fun.

 

[Spare_change]

The dirty little secret is that mostly democrat administrations since WW2 have turned over control of the Military to the freaking geniuses in the CIA. Democrat administrations since FDR have never trusted the Pentagon to conduct military operations. Ever since JFK illegally used the CIA to train, equip and train an illegal invasion army the democrat party has been in love with the concept. Vietnam was a CIA dominated micro-managed mess but George Bush allowed Swartzkopf to do his job and Iraq turned out to be a textbook on military operations even though the democrat party undermined both the Military and the mission.

That's funny shit .... and sounds like a great premise for a novel.

 

[JBond]

Liberals LOVE to use MILITARY spending as the only Federal Spending to be reduced.


Why didn't OBAMA do this during his 8 years in office?




"The Defense Department is starting the first agency-wide financial audit in its history," the Pentagon's news service says, announcing that it's undertaking an immense task that has been sought, promised and delayed for years.

Of the tally that is starting this week, chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana W. White said, "It demonstrates our commitment to fiscal responsibility and maximizing the value of every taxpayer dollar that is entrusted to us."

"Beginning in 2018, our audits will occur annually, with reports issued Nov. 15," the Defense Department's comptroller, David L. Norquist, said.

The Defense Department has famously never been audited, despite receiving hundreds of billions of dollars annually and having more than $2.2 trillion in assets.

Pentagon Announces First-Ever Audit Of The Department Of Defense

I can only imagine the WASTE we are going to find! I love that when President Trump says he is going to do something HE DOES IT!

The operative word is "IMAGINE"

The headline is disingenuous, at best, and a downright falsehood, at worst.

To suggest that DoD has never had financial audits is ludicrous. To suggest that a "agency-wide" audit is going to find anything substantial, is, naive and simplistic.

DoD is subject to the most rigorous checks and balances in the world. Nobody - not the federal government, not your local government, not your company - is restricted in its negotiations the way DoD is. It is these very restrictions that drive UP the cost of projects, not lower them.

But, hey, if it will make you happy - we will spend millions of dollars doing audits, we will investigate to the ends of the earth, we will find nothing - and everybody will claim the fix is still in.

Have fun.

Funny stuff....

Audit reveals Army's trillion-dollar accounting gaffes - CNNPolitics

 

[The Original Tree]

Maybe if THE LEFT launched a FAKE INVESTIGATION over FAKE RUSSIAN COLLUSION...all these AUDITS and DEMANDS OF ACCOUNTABILITY...would NOT HAPPEN.

GUESS THEY FUCKED THAT UP TOO!

LMFAO!

 

[Spare_change]

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Related; "How did the Pentagon lose over $6.5 TRILLION in taxpayer dollars?"

More silliness.

The supposed "missing" money is the "black" budget - used for programs that are classified, and not available for review by anyone except select members of Congress. The IG wouldn't get within a mile of it.

There's nothing to see here .... except paranoia.

 

[Spare_change]

Liberals LOVE to use MILITARY spending as the only Federal Spending to be reduced.


Why didn't OBAMA do this during his 8 years in office?




"The Defense Department is starting the first agency-wide financial audit in its history," the Pentagon's news service says, announcing that it's undertaking an immense task that has been sought, promised and delayed for years.

Of the tally that is starting this week, chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana W. White said, "It demonstrates our commitment to fiscal responsibility and maximizing the value of every taxpayer dollar that is entrusted to us."

"Beginning in 2018, our audits will occur annually, with reports issued Nov. 15," the Defense Department's comptroller, David L. Norquist, said.

The Defense Department has famously never been audited, despite receiving hundreds of billions of dollars annually and having more than $2.2 trillion in assets.

Pentagon Announces First-Ever Audit Of The Department Of Defense

I can only imagine the WASTE we are going to find! I love that when President Trump says he is going to do something HE DOES IT!

The operative word is "IMAGINE"

The headline is disingenuous, at best, and a downright falsehood, at worst.

To suggest that DoD has never had financial audits is ludicrous. To suggest that a "agency-wide" audit is going to find anything substantial, is, naive and simplistic.

DoD is subject to the most rigorous checks and balances in the world. Nobody - not the federal government, not your local government, not your company - is restricted in its negotiations the way DoD is. It is these very restrictions that drive UP the cost of projects, not lower them.

But, hey, if it will make you happy - we will spend millions of dollars doing audits, we will investigate to the ends of the earth, we will find nothing - and everybody will claim the fix is still in.

Have fun.

Funny stuff....

Audit reveals Army's trillion-dollar accounting gaffes - CNNPolitics

Yeah, right .... the same story, repackaged. I'm pretty sure that you won't find receipts for your local intel agent staying at the Holiday Inn in Paris exposed in the an unclassified audit.

We are going to be subjected to this kind of ignorance for the next two years - because it fits the liberal dialogue.

Have fun ... because you certainly have no clue.

 

[Care4all]

Liberals LOVE to use MILITARY spending as the only Federal Spending to be reduced.


Why didn't OBAMA do this during his 8 years in office?




"The Defense Department is starting the first agency-wide financial audit in its history," the Pentagon's news service says, announcing that it's undertaking an immense task that has been sought, promised and delayed for years.

Of the tally that is starting this week, chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana W. White said, "It demonstrates our commitment to fiscal responsibility and maximizing the value of every taxpayer dollar that is entrusted to us."

"Beginning in 2018, our audits will occur annually, with reports issued Nov. 15," the Defense Department's comptroller, David L. Norquist, said.

The Defense Department has famously never been audited, despite receiving hundreds of billions of dollars annually and having more than $2.2 trillion in assets.

Pentagon Announces First-Ever Audit Of The Department Of Defense

Really? the first ever audit of the Defense Dept?

Hmmmmm, if memory serves me, Rumsfeld announced the day before the 9/11 attack, that the auditors found $2.3 Trillion dollars were missing or unaccounted for from a 1999 AUDIT of the Pentagon/Defense Dept...

yep,

here is a cut and link of it

By Aleen Sirgany CBS January 29, 2002, 11:18 AM
The War On Waste
On Sept. 10, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war. Not on foreign terrorists, "the adversary's closer to home. It's the Pentagon bureaucracy," he said.

He said money wasted by the military poses a serious threat.

"In fact, it could be said it's a matter of life and death," he said.

Rumsfeld promised change but the next day – Sept. 11-- the world changed and in the rush to fund the war on terrorism, the war on waste seems to have been forgotten.

Just last week President Bush announced, "my 2003 budget calls for more than $48 billion in new defense spending."

More money for the Pentagon, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, while its own auditors admit the military cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends.

"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.

The War On Waste

 

[evenflow1969]

Liberals LOVE to use MILITARY spending as the only Federal Spending to be reduced.


Why didn't OBAMA do this during his 8 years in office?




"The Defense Department is starting the first agency-wide financial audit in its history," the Pentagon's news service says, announcing that it's undertaking an immense task that has been sought, promised and delayed for years.

Of the tally that is starting this week, chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana W. White said, "It demonstrates our commitment to fiscal responsibility and maximizing the value of every taxpayer dollar that is entrusted to us."

"Beginning in 2018, our audits will occur annually, with reports issued Nov. 15," the Defense Department's comptroller, David L. Norquist, said.

The Defense Department has famously never been audited, despite receiving hundreds of billions of dollars annually and having more than $2.2 trillion in assets.

Pentagon Announces First-Ever Audit Of The Department Of Defense

It is not a bad thing. It is a good thing!

 

[Windparadox]

More silliness.The supposed "missing" money is the "black" budget - used for programs that are classified, and not available for review by anyone except select members of Congress. The IG wouldn't get within a mile of it.There's nothing to see here .... except paranoia.

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You obviously didn't read the article. You are clueless as to what the topic is.

 

[Spare_change]

More silliness.The supposed "missing" money is the "black" budget - used for programs that are classified, and not available for review by anyone except select members of Congress. The IG wouldn't get within a mile of it.There's nothing to see here .... except paranoia.

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You obviously didn't read the article. You are clueless as to what the topic is.

I read the article. I also worked in the Pentagon for 5 years, and was a government worker/contractor for another 30 .... yeah, I'm clueless.

In the meantime, you read a single hit piece from a liberal rag that is short on facts, provides no context, does not have access to the overall DoD budget, and, suddenly, you're the expert!

Yep, I'm clueless.

 

[Kondor3]

I love that when President Trump says he is going to do something HE DOES IT!

....like just happening to be president when something goes into effect that congress ordered under the previous president

again, it appears the best thing that happened to this country is obummer left the presidency. all kinds of shit happening good for us. hmmmmmm maybe obummer wasn't that good at his job.

Not even a good job at deflection.

The matter at-hand is whether Trump set the Audit into motion or whether Obama set the Audit into motion.

 

[Kondor3]

The Department of Defense (and its War Department ancestor) have been a Target-Rich Environment for Contractors since the 18th Century.

A comprehensive Audit across the entire Department would make for great Public Sport and would reveal much related to Bang-for-the-Buck.

Expect a great many Corporate and Military resignations, at least a few suicides, and enough substance to keep the Attorney General busy for years.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money

Why did you shorten the sentence?

"regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time."

Remind me, when was the last audit? From time to time or never?

Both can be true.