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Of course it's failing. Screwed up accounting allows for easier stealing and harder to pinpoint who/when/where money ended up.

by smtddr 13y ago

arethuza 13y ago
"Who in their right mind would send 363 tonnes of cash into a war zone?" http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1
- smtddr 13y ago
  That's ridiculous! These wars are just fronts for money laundering & control of oil. It's only by coincidence that they can align some wars with some human-rights violation. Otherwise, they'll just make stuff up. We need a revolution, there I said it. Go ahead NSA and add me to the watch-list. Nobody here doubts that you scan this site daily.
  - arethuza 13y ago
    Well, there might be good reasons for having that amount of cash - but you can't help wondering what the processes and systems there were for controlling what it was all used for.. Edit: This attitude by a US general doesn't exactly come across well: Q: "But the fact is billions of dollars have disappeared without trace." Oliver: "Of their money. Billions of dollars of their money, yeah I understand. I'm saying what difference does it make?"
  - saraid216 13y ago
    Dear NSA, please also add me to the watch list. I feel lonely.
VLM 13y ago
And not just thievery, I searched the article and found nothing about secret programs. "consequences for failure" isn't the problem, the real problem is "consequences for success" No tinfoil hat stuff needed, merely look at history, opening the books of the Manhattan project or area 51 in the stealth fighter years would not have been very wise. I suspect as a former .mil guy that a lot more money disappears into stuff like that, than is officially admitted, or is lost to corruption. If you think a simple IT project is expensive when .mil does it, doing anything secretly insta-quadruples the cost if not more.

Of course it's failing. Screwed up accounting allows for easier stealing and harder to pinpoint who/when/where money ended up.

by smtddr 13y ago

Of course it's failing. Screwed up accounting allows for easier stealing and harder to pinpoint who/when/where money ended up.

arethuza 13y ago

"Who in their right mind would send 363 tonnes of cash into a war zone?" http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1

smtddr 13y ago
That's ridiculous! These wars are just fronts for money laundering & control of oil. It's only by coincidence that they can align some wars with some human-rights violation. Otherwise, they'll just make stuff up. We need a revolution, there I said it. Go ahead NSA and add me to the watch-list. Nobody here doubts that you scan this site daily.
- arethuza 13y ago
  Well, there might be good reasons for having that amount of cash - but you can't help wondering what the processes and systems there were for controlling what it was all used for.. Edit: This attitude by a US general doesn't exactly come across well: Q: "But the fact is billions of dollars have disappeared without trace." Oliver: "Of their money. Billions of dollars of their money, yeah I understand. I'm saying what difference does it make?"
- saraid216 13y ago
  Dear NSA, please also add me to the watch list. I feel lonely.

VLM 13y ago

And not just thievery, I searched the article and found nothing about secret programs. "consequences for failure" isn't the problem, the real problem is "consequences for success" No tinfoil hat stuff needed, merely look at history, opening the books of the Manhattan project or area 51 in the stealth fighter years would not have been very wise. I suspect as a former .mil guy that a lot more money disappears into stuff like that, than is officially admitted, or is lost to corruption. If you think a simple IT project is expensive when .mil does it, doing anything secretly insta-quadruples the cost if not more.