"Over a mere two decades, the Pentagon lost track of a mind-numbing $10 trillion — that’s trillion, with a fat, taxpayer-funded “T” — and no one, not even the Department of Defense, really knows where it went or on what it was spent.
Because, as defense officials insist — summoning their best impudent adolescent — an audit would take too long and, unironically, cost too much.
“Over the last 20 years, the Pentagon has broken every promise to Congress about when an audit would be completed,” Rafael DeGennaro, director of Audit the Pentagon, told the Guardian recently.
“Meanwhile, Congress has more than doubled the Pentagon’s budget.”..."
Read on. It gets worse!
“Meanwhile, Congress has more than doubled the Pentagon’s budget.”..."
Read on. It gets worse!
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