$1B In Military Equipment Missing In Iraq
Exclusive: Report Shows Vehicles, Machine Guns And More Meant For Iraqi Forces Unaccounted For
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Tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, crates of machine guns and rocket propelled grenades are just a sampling of more than $1 billion in unaccounted for military equipment and services provided to the Iraqi security forces, according to a new report issued today by the Pentagon Inspector General and obtained exclusively by the CBS News investigative unit. Auditors for the Inspector General reviewed equipment contracts totaling $643 million but could only find an audit trail for $83 million.
The report details a massive failure in government procurement revealing little accountability for the billions of dollars spent purchasing military hardware for the Iraqi security forces. For example, according to the report, the military could not account for 12,712 out of 13,508 weapons, including pistols, assault rifles, rocket propelled grenade launchers and machine guns.Inspector General Report 1.95 mb.
The report comes on the same day that Army procurement officials will face tough questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee regarding their procurement policies. One official, Claude Bolton, assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology has already announced his resignation on the heels of sharp criticism of army contracting. Bolton’s resignation is effective Jan. 2, 2008. The Army has significantly expanded its fraud investigations in recent months.
The report is scheduled for official release Thursday afternoon. Check back with CBSNews.com for more on this developing story.
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P.s. They can also watch moronic programming designed to dull the minds of viewers such as King of the Hill, Simpsons and all the other trash on that network.
"Your''e doing a hell of a job, Bushie"!
Posted by speakinup ha speakindildo is at it again....
20 folks out of what, almost 300 million. And, probably half of them are really idiots from other countries posing as US citizens.
Posted by speakinup
So you really think it''s only 20 huh?? It''s fairly obvious that you''ve been gulping the kool-aid SIR! There''s more than 20 by far, we''re not all liberals (not even close), I drive American pickups and Jeeps (German & J ap cars are the conservatives choice), There''s at least 51% of us who want this warmongering MORON in jail!!
They are with the WMD !!Makes you proud doesn`t it ?The feds take our tax money and fund King W`s Oil friends,Halliburton,Blackwatergate and whatever else Dead-eye Dicck wants.Losing our money,our resources and our lives in this " Endless Oil War " is totally disgusting. " Friends don`t let friends vote republicon "
Amen!
The American people have been RIPPED OFF for years by the military-corporate-congressional complex. Congress refuses to mandate a basic audit process that any publicly traded corporation must provide.
This is just one little example of the fraud and abuse that is ripping us off. Americans would be justifiably be outraged if someone stole their wallet or purse. But when corporations and complicit politicians steal literally thousands of dollars from their income taxes they do nothing, demand nothing.
HALF of our income taxes go to the War Machine - mostly to needless weapons systems that feed corporate pigs at the congressional trough.
Face it - Corporations Rule. Through their campaign contributions and lobbyists. They literally write the laws.
Enough is enough. If we spent 1/10th the amount of the War Budget on PEACE, we could begin to wind down this War Machine, create AMERICAN jobs on renewable energy and a sustainable economy. Instead we spent $600 BILLION in a needless War on Iraq so we can enrich the Oil Corporations and spew more CO2 into the warming planet.
SICK
WAKE UP AMERICA!
i''m still wondering where the 2 trillion dollars the pentagon lost is. you know, donald rumsfeld announced it in a press conferance on september 10, 2001.
something made us forget about it though, what was that event, hmmm....
The REAL news today is this:
''State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard, under scrutiny for his brother''s link to the Blackwater security firm, has decided to resign, U.S. officials said on Friday.--
Krongard last month recused himself from Blackwater oversight after saying in a congressional hearing that his brother A.B. ''Buzzy'' Krongard, a former executive director of the CIA, had attended a meeting of Blackwater''s advisory board.
Krongard had begun the hearing by denying the "ugly rumors" that his brother was associated with the company, which is under investigation for a September 16 shooting incident in Baghdad in which 17 Iraqis were killed.''
Tie it together - Blackwater and the greedy ''put options'' of 9/11...
Seems the Krongard family (among other CIA insiders) might have known 9/11 was to occur and bet millions that the involved airlines stock would plummet...
insiders/CIA/Halliburton...
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