The Pentagon’s Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has come out of an internal audit missing in excess of $800 million from construction projects, with no paper trail for where it went or to what end.
Making matters a bit more shocking, the DLA issued a statement after this revelation saying they were “not surprised,” noting they were the first agency to go through such an audit, and didn’t expect to come out of it clean.
Officials termed this a “shortcoming in documentation,” and that there was no evidence that the losses amounted to losses of any real property or funds, though there likewise isn’t evidence that there wasn’t, since they don’t know what happened to it.
This is just one such agency, and myriad other Pentagon agencies, with their own untold billions, are likely to struggle with their own audits. Revelations about the missing money are likely to add to concern about trusting the Pentagon with its ever growing budget, and whether any amount of paperwork could ever be expected to keep track of such an endeavour.
With this admission, the Pentagon’s probably just hazing the welfare state.
800 million out of how much and how long? Imagine if Health and Human Services had sprung such a leak.
let’s not forget 2.3 trillion that went messing one day before 911
$10,000,000,000. Give or take a dollar or two.
They weren’t surprised they found money missing – they were surprised they ONLY identified $800M as unaccounted for.
The Pentagon has to be the most corrupt institution in the the most corrupt country in the world. And people smirk at “banana republics” and African despots. Hopefully one day, some day, the amount of money stolen by all corrupt American bureaucrats and their corporate scumbag buddies will be known, at least from 9/11 onward.
Only $800,000,000.00
Chump change.