Top Pentagon Auditor Tells What The Problems Are

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Our Comments On This Story
1. What has happened to the Constitutional requirement for an audit as spelled out in “the accountability clause” of the U.S. Constitution? Are these checks and balances that we assume to be present in our government still present? And, is the Department in some ways being run separately from and independently of Constitutional requirements?

2. If trillions are lost, unaccounted for or spent inappropriately, then what is left over for appropriate defense? Who is in charge of distinguishing between the needs of an institutional culture, personal careers, and profits, and the needs of the nation?

3. If the Congress enables this practice because of its own political pressures or rewards; i.e., campaign contributions and distribution of "pork barrel" projects, then from where will the push-back on Congress come? Who will put forth ideas for revitalizing our infrastructure and economy in ways besides unnecessary pork? And who will tell Congress that they know the Pentagon contractors furnish reports on every dollar, and that it is a big contradiction if they continue to say that trillions are totally lost and unaccountable?

4. Why was Bill Moyers’ “Now” the only program to carry the story in any detail?

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