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> “Where is the money going? Nobody knows,” said Franklin Spinney An ex army ranger once told me that the 'missing' money in the military budget goes to operat
by O5vYtytb 10y ago
> “Where is the money going? Nobody knows,” said Franklin Spinney
An ex army ranger once told me that the 'missing' money in the military budget goes to operations like the ones he was part of, which of course he could not tell me about. Of course there is also waste and pork, but I think the majority of this money is for black ops.
- smithkl42 10y agoThough presumably not $6+ trillion, right?
- at-fates-hands 10y agoIf you think about the insane cutting edge technology the Special Forces teams get, 6 Trillion seems a bit. . . .low. Case in point are the Stealth helicopters they used in the Bin Laden raid. Up to that point, no one outside the military and probably very few inside the military knew they existed. A fact that would have been concealed had they not crashed one during the operation.
- sliverstorm 10y agoIt's corruption that really drives the desire to find out where the money is going. Waste & pork are acceptable on some levels, but most people have zero tolerance for corruption on the public dime, and are thus driven to find it. Now, how you can give the data to find corruption without revealing black ops, I don't know.
- BinaryIdiot 10y ago> An ex army ranger once told me that the 'missing' money in the military budget goes to operations like the ones he was part of, which of course he could not tell me about. Sounds like he fed you some bullshit. I see no reason why it wouldn't be placed under a generic category with zero information regarding it possibly even lumped into something else. This is how it worked with classified projects when I worked in DoD contracting; not sure why this would be any different.
- O5vYtytb 10y agoSure, he could have been lying, so could I. Are you really suggesting that classified projects are on the same level as black ops?
- BinaryIdiot 10y ago> Are you really suggesting that classified projects are on the same level as black ops? They're different for sure but the required secrecy is essentially the same. Just because something is a secret doesn't mean it won't get accounted for. Granted the DoD accounting practices are horrific but where they exist it will get counted.
- anupshinde 10y agoAre you suggesting "Trillions of dollars goes into black ops"? And I think complex accounting internals is the furthest of the concerns any field-operative army ranger would have.
- maxerickson 10y agoWhich is still ridiculous. That spending can at least be a single top level item that the public has a chance to consider directly.