Unaccountable: the Pentagon's bad book keeping

[Tracy Riddle]

Part 2: For two decades, the U.S. military has been unable to submit to an audit, flouting federal law and concealing waste and fraud totaling billions of dollars

LETTERKENNY ARMY DEPOT, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania - Linda Woodford spent the last 15 years of her career inserting phony numbers in the U.S. Department of Defense's accounts.


http://www.reuters.com/investigates/pent...icle/part2

Part 3: Time and again, programs to modernize Defense Department record-keeping have fallen prey to bureaucratic rivalry, resistance to change and a lack of consequences for failure.

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia - The U.S. Air Force had great expectations for the Expeditionary Combat Support System when it launched the project in 2005. This accountants' silver bullet, the Air Force predicted a year later, "will fundamentally revolutionize the way the Air Force provides logistics support."


The new computer-based logistics technology would replace 420 obsolete, inefficient and largely incompatible "legacy" systems with a single, unified means of tracking the hardware of warfare. And it would be done for a mere $1.5 billion, combining three off-the-shelf products from Oracle Corp and modifying them only enough so that they could work together.


Seven years and $1.03 billion taxpayer dollars later, the Air Force announced in November 2012 that it was killing the project. ECSS had yielded "negligible" value and was "no longer a viable option," the Air Force said. It would have taken an estimated $1.1 billion more to turn it into a system that could perform about one-quarter of its originally planned tasks, and couldn't be fielded until 2020.


http://www.reuters.com/investigates/pent...icle/part3

[Peter Lemkin]

And let us not forget the 2.3 Trillion [give or take a few hundred billions] that Rumsfeld said was 'missing' just days before 9-11 when a missile hit the side of the Pentagon that contained the accounting offices [which accounted for most of those killed in the Pentagon]. :tampfeet::

[Tracy Riddle]

As Chalmers Johnson documented in his books, apparently the Pentagon can't even keep track of how many overseas bases and installations they have. Every time they count them, they get different numbers.

Mapping United States Military Installations:

http://empire.is/

[Peter Lemkin]

As Chalmers Johnson documented in his books, apparently the Pentagon can't even keep track of how many overseas bases and installations they have. Every time they count them, they get different numbers.

Mapping United States Military Installations:

http://empire.is/

Amazing, but true...there are huge ones, small ones, known ones, 'secret' ones, deniable ones, disguised ones; so even the Pentagong can't come up with a fixed number..other than just about every country or territory on Earth has one. I'll even bet there is one in the Antarctic - against all international law....but when did we ever respect that 'stuff'.

N.B. the best ones in those Google Earth images are the ones that say 'no imagery here'....that's the same if you try Area 51, even today [when it is said to be inactive].