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Why would anyone care about an audit if there are no repercussions?
by blindriver 3y ago
Why would anyone care about an audit if there are no repercussions?
- eviks 3y agoThose boxes don't check themselves
- wolverine876 3y agoWhy do you say there are no reprocussions? It's a signicant issue in Congress, which writes all of the Department of Defense's checks, oversees them, investigates them, confirms their leaders, and makes laws controlling everything they do.
- Loughla 3y agoAnd what has failing audits led to in the past?
- jsbisviewtiful 3y agoSo far more money :P
- wolverine876 3y agoTo improving the auditability of the Pentagon, a new and ongoing project. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38307749 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38307749
- edgyquant 3y agoThey haven’t been doing them for very long at all and have had better results pretty much every year since they started.
- mrchucklepants 3y agoIt should be. But its not and, likely, never will be.
- thesuitonym 3y agoThe DoD is Congress' baby. They will move heaven and earth to make sure the defense industry gets paid.
- brvsft 3y agoThe failed audits have no impact on their budget the following year.
- wolverine876 3y agoThe Pentagon is on track, for the most part, on their auditing project. But what makes you say it doesn't impact their budget?
- Matticus_Rex 3y agoSix (out of six) years of failed audits, and no repercussions in sight?
- wolverine876 3y agoAgain, they are on track. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38307749 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38307749 It's like an airplane under development. It's not expected to fly yet.
- Matticus_Rex 3y ago> It's a signicant issue in Congress What are you basing that on?
- wolverine876 3y agoLots of discussion and pressure on it, going back 10-15 or more years.
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- KennyBlanken 3y agoBelieve it or not, the Pentagon isn't really the problem; Congress is. https://rollcall.com/2023/05/23/hill-favored-projects-called-defense-budgets-black-hole/ https://rollcall.com/2023/05/23/hill-favored-projects-called... Congressional representatives push all sorts of weapons "programs" that military leadership doesn't want or need, because it's an easy way to be able to go home and tell your voters how many jobs you "saved" "protecting America." Well over a decade ago Pentagon leadership declared that their budget was not sustainable for the country...just like they declared a long time ago that climate change was a serious threat and started working on decarbonization (the US military is still the single largest generator of carbon dioxide on the planet.)
- beambot 3y agoMore to the point: Perhaps it's a feature, not a bug.