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> he equipment allegedly taken by the engineer cost nearly $90,000. Do you know the Department of Defence has never passed a audit?
by willcipriano 3y ago
> he equipment allegedly taken by the engineer cost nearly $90,000.
Do you know the Department of Defence has never passed a audit?
- namaria 3y agoThe whole point of war and defense narratives is to make people afraid so you can override every precaution and appropriate and dissipate resources freely. That's the logic behind DoD mega spending, 'war on drugs', war on terror' narratives, right wing moral panics / culture wars populism, and organized crime protection rackets. Make people afraid, they will give you anything to make the threat disappear. Including their freedom and dignity. There is no single entity involved in this game that is not shady and corrupt to its core.
- _trampeltier 3y agoYes, but at least they make progress :) https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3740921-defense-department-fails-another-audit-but-makes-progress/ https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3740921-defense-departmen...
- cloudripper 3y ago> officials found that the department couldn’t account for about 61 percent of its assets. > McCord said the department has made progress toward a “clean” audit in the past year, but later added “we failed to get an ‘A.’...I would not say that we flunked. Good to know that by US government standards, a 61% is an acceptable passing grade...
- nulld3v 3y ago*39% is a passing grade
- wgjordan 3y agoThey couldn't account for 61 percent, so their score would be a 39%.
- cloudripper 3y agoFortunately, I maintained a similar passing grade in maths/reading comprehension...
- notquitehuman 3y agoThey would make more progress if we only gave them the money they can account for.
- dmix 3y agoHas the ever been another agency where billions going 'missing' is tolerated?
- pnpnp 3y agoThings like the SR-71 and B-2 development programs are off the higher level books. Due to the compartmentalized nature of some of the programs (with good reason), it’s infeasible the DoD would ever pass a traditional audit. Much like the CIA intentionally obfuscates funding for 3rd parties.
- callalex 3y agoAnd yet other countries in the free world seem to manage this problem just fine…
- pnpnp 3y agoSure, but the comment I was responding to referenced auditing the DoD. This is a whole different can of worms :)
- Dah00n 3y agoThat's because they don't have a government in a government in a government.... 127 layers deep. More like 2-3.
- cvwright 3y agoBecause the US provides the SR-71s and B-2s for those countries.
- fullspectrumdev 3y agoBingo. I can’t think of any other EU/NATO/FVEY country that actually does development of defence tech on the scale the US does.
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- tenpies 3y agoProbably the same reason every Senate Democrats voted against having an Inspector General on Ukraine aide. [1] --- [1] https://nypost.com/2023/07/27/senate-dems-oppose-oversight-office-of-us-aid-for-ukraine/#:~:text=Forty%2Dfive%20Democrats%20—%20including%20every,Defense%20Authorization%20Act%20(NDAA) https://nypost.com/2023/07/27/senate-dems-oppose-oversight-o....