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wildbilln864

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Mon Aug 15, 2016, 05:09 PM Aug 2016

Pentagon’s Sloppy Bookkeeping Means $6.5 Trillion Can’t Pass an Audit

The Defense Department over the years has been notorious for its lax accounting practices. The Pentagon has never completed an audit of how they actually spend the trillions of dollars on wars, equipment, personnel, housing, healthcare and procurements.

An increasingly impatient Congress has demanded that the Army achieve “audit readiness” for the first time by Sept. 30, 2017, so that lawmakers can get a better handle on military spending. But Pentagon watchdogs think that may be mission impossible, and for good reason.

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/07/31/Pentagon-s-Sloppy-Bookkeeping-Means-65-Trillion-Can-t-Pass-Audit

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Pentagon’s Sloppy Bookkeeping Means $6.5 Trillion Can’t Pass an Audit (Original Post) wildbilln864 Aug 2016 OP
A trillion here, A trillion there, yortsed snacilbuper Aug 2016 #1
+1 uponit7771 Aug 2016 #2
The last time something like that happened..... LuvNewcastle Aug 2016 #3
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