The day before 9/11 Rummy revealed $2.3 trillion missing from the Pentgon's budget.
". . . At the 14:15 mark, Rumsfeld says, “Our financial systems are decades old. According to some estimates, we cannot track 2.3 trillion dollars in transactions. We cannot share information from floor to floor in this building. Because it's stored on dozens of different technological systems that are inaccessible or incompatible.”
While he did make the remarks the day before 9/11, it was not the first time this amount was brought up.
An audit report(page 4 of the pdf) released on Feb. 25, 2000, about financial statements for the fiscal year 1999 by the Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Defense says, “For the accounting entries, $2.3 trillion was not supported by adequate audit trails or sufficient evidence to determine their validity, $2 trillion was not reviewed because of time constraints, and $2.6 trillion were supported.”
Twenty years later. . . .This? Is still a problem.
The Pentagon’s $35 Trillion Accounting Black Hole
While it shouldn’t come as a surprise for an organization that has famously failed to ever pass an audit, the Pentagon was nevertheless able to shock some observers this week with a new batch of financial numbers.According to Bloomberg’s Anthony Carpaccio, the Department of Defense made $35...
finance.yahoo.com
The second audit of the Department of Defense ended the same way as the first one: with a failing grade.
www.thefiscaltimes.com
Pentagon fails 6th straight audit of trillions
The Pentagon has once again failed to pass its annual audit, marking the sixth consecutive year of a failed audit.
americanmilitarynews.com
IMO? This is no longer a "WHOOPSIE," or a bug of the system, but a planned feature of purposeful corruption. They should get no more budget increases until this problem is solved. They have had twenty years to fix it.
thehill.com
