The Pentagon has failed another audit and proved, once again, its inability to track the endless pit of taxpayer money it receives.
In a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) earlier this week, the Department of Defense failed to account for at least $220 billion in equipment given to government contractors, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported.
Apparently, the Pentagon has had issues accounting for “government furnished property” since 2001 and hasn’t improved in the past 20+ years.
Somehow, that doesn’t seem like an accident.
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Pentagon can't account for $220 billion in gov't property, fails fifth audit – TheBlaze https://t.co/UCL1Yl2EFI
— AmericanWoman_USA (@AmericanwomanU1) January 19, 2023
How much of the $220 billion that just went “missing” in the Pentagon audit is being funneled to Ukraine on top of the $130,000,000,000.00 we’ve already spent there?
I mean who doesn’t just lose 220 billion. Seems totally legit.— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 20, 2023
“For years, the Department of Defense (DOD) has struggled to accurately account for government property in the possession of contractors, known as government furnished property (GFP). DOD has repeatedly revised its planned dates to address a GFP-related material weakness since auditors first reported it in 2001,” the GAO report stated.
Daily Caller News Foundation reported:
The Pentagon failed its fifth audit in a row in November since formally beginning the practice in 2018, DefenseNews reported. Contractors could not prove expenditures for 61% of the Pentagon’s $3.5 trillion in assets; a total of $7.2 trillion in assets and liabilities for 2022 included high-value weapons and equipment, 2.9 million personnel and 643,900 physical assets, according to the outlet, according to Military.com.
Assets include those provided for use to contractors, according to GAO.
“I would not say that we flunked. The process is important for us to do, and it is making us get better. It is not making us get better as fast as we want,” Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord said, according to DefenseNews.
The property in question includes equipment and material contractors can use or consume for repairing and modifying weapons, according to GAO.
GAO said the Pentagon needs to develop a separate plan to identify the root cause of accounting deficiencies after finding that “department-wide efforts have not been comprehensive and sufficiently detailed.”
“Without such a strategy, DOD is at an increased risk that its efforts to remediate the [government furnished property] material weakness will continue to be insufficient and that it will continue to miss or push back target remediation dates,” the report said.
Read the full Government Accountability Office (GAO) report HERE.
This is the FIRST Audit they failed a few weeks ago…
This is a major red alert!
The Pentagon has just failed its (fifth ever) audit and can’t account for 61% of its assets, which amounts to a missing $2.1 Trillion!
Oopsies!
This is a red alert for two big reasons:
First, the obvious fact that $2.1 trillion of your tax payer dollars are GONE.
These people aren’t dumb…they didn’t just “lose” it.
This is what you get when you are laundering MASSIVE amounts of money.
How much of it went to Ukraine and then to FTX and then back to Democrats?
Most of it?
All of it?
Who knows…
The second reason is because the last time this happened was ONE DAY before 9/11 hit…and then the missing $2.3 trillion (back then) suddenly vanished from the news.
More on that in a minute.
First, take a look at this:
The Pentagon fails its 5th audit in a row. It only managed to account for 39% of its $3.5 trillion in assets
“The U.S. military has the distinction of being the only U.S. government agency to have never passed a comprehensive audit”
This is wild.https://t.co/UiKOUG0ryE
— Nina Metz (@Nina_Metz) November 27, 2022
Can anyone tell me why in the hell they need $2 billion per day???
Are you kidding me?
This is nuts:
🤔💰The Pentagon just FAILED another audit and can’t account for $2 TRILLION (!!): https://t.co/cs0a8Bqz0s
Interesting how those who claim to care about fraud and waste never mention this. @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty @RepMarkGreen @timburchett @RepChuck @DesJarlaisTN04 pic.twitter.com/euhqlOqz7F
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) November 25, 2022
Don’t buy the BS that this is “missing” or “lost”.
It was funneled.
The Pentagon can’t account for assets worth more than the GDPs of all but 7 nations in the world. But, don’t worry; it’s not a flunk.
“Pentagon Fails to Pass New Financial Audit, Unable to Account for Over $2 Trillion in Assets”https://t.co/WwNzZNVQuC https://t.co/6fRt0h6Hys pic.twitter.com/Fm2QnXbVmM
— Laocoon of Troy (@LaocoonofTroy) November 27, 2022
The Pentagon/DOD has literally never passed an audit.
Never ever.
The US military is so awash with money & so unaccountable, that it's literally never passed an audit ever. https://t.co/GwgIAdi4DV
— Dwayne David Paul (@DwayneDavidPaul) November 26, 2022
The Hill had more details:
The Defense Department has failed its fifth-ever audit, unable to account for more than half of its assets, but the effort is being viewed as a “teachable moment,” according to its chief financial officer.
After 1,600 auditors combed through DOD’s $3.5 trillion in assets and $3.7 trillion in liabilities, officials found that the department couldn’t account for about 61 percent of its assets, Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord told reporters on Tuesday.
McCord said the department has made progress toward a “clean” audit in the past year, but later added “we failed to get an ‘A.’”
“I would not say that we flunked. The process is important for us to do, and it is making us get better. It is not making us get better as fast as we want,” he said.
This year’s outcome was not unexpected.
Federal law since the early 1990s requires mandatory audits for all government agencies, and since fiscal year 2013 all but the DOD have been able to satisfy that requirement.
The sheer size and scope of the department — which makes up for more than half of the U.S. discretionary spending and has assets that range from personnel and supplies to bases and weapons — makes it difficult to audit.
In December 2017, defense officials set out to scrutinize DOD’s books, the first comprehensive audit of the agency in its history. That effort failed the next year, and the four that followed.
The agency had never expected to pass, however, due to accounting issues officials said could take years to fix.
Because accounting records needed to complete the assessment were not available, all five audits received a “disclaimer of opinion,” though there have been improvements each time.
McCord, who served as Pentagon comptroller from 2009 to 2017 and again since June 2021, said the most recent audit required 220 in-person site visits and 750 virtual site visits by Pentagon officials and independent public accounting firm personnel.
What they found were several new weaknesses in how DOD accounted for its assets, which include nearly 2.9 million military personnel; equipment and weapons including 19,700 aircraft and more than 290 ships; and physical items including buildings, roads and fences on 4,860 sites worldwide.
To break up the work, the department holds 27 separate, smaller audits and then combines the information to get the bigger picture and prevent “having something on a record that doesn’t exist in reality or having big discrepancies.”
McCord said that while he prefers to focus on the progress in this year’s audit, each time “the progress is getting a little harder” due to “much of the lower hanging fruit having been picked,” meaning the simpler issues have already been weeded out.
Now let’s take a walk down memory lane to remember the last time this happened…
September 10, 2001 and we go to good old Rumy:
NEVER FORGET: Donald Rumsfeld On The Day Before 9/11: “We Can’t Account For a Missing $2.3 Trillion…”
Never Forget…
Never Forget Building 7, which I just wrote about.
And Never Forget what Donald Rumsfeld said the DAY BEFORE the tragic events.
Have you heard about this before?
Maybe not.
Literally just one day before 9/11/01, Donald Rumsfeld went on TV and announced that we just couldn’t account for a missing $2.3 trillion.
Awwww shucks!
Rumsfeld and GWB just couldn’t figure out where it all went!
Perhaps if all the records would also disappear, then it wouldn’t be such a big deal?
Now where do you suppose the records were stored….?
I’ll let you figure that one out.
Watch the clip safely here on Rumble:
Backups here:
https://twitter.com/HolmesThady/status/1568953859749330944
And here:
https://twitter.com/MarketeerMa/status/1568740323786117121
Just more coincidences:
Is it a coincidence Donald Rumsfeld announced $2.3 TRILLION was missing from the Pentagon the day before 9/11?
And the only video of the plane hitting the most secure building in the US, the Pentagon, wiping out all traces of the $ is this?#NeverForgetpic.twitter.com/rMKEZtynS8
— Conspiracies & Comics (@ConspiraciesCo) September 11, 2022
Awwww shucks, maybe we shipped it on pallets to Iran?
Who the hell knows!
https://twitter.com/RSulliv15348672/status/1568800575592038401
Or this:
https://twitter.com/YellowstoneRan1/status/1569025627822641152
So many questions:
Never forget that the day after Rumsfeld mentioned missing 2.3 trillion dollars, a navy cruise missile impacted the Office of Naval Intelligence at the Pentagon where the computers were kept which stored that information…. and the money trail was lost. pic.twitter.com/3geUOK9Z5a
— John McCool (@JohnMcC96259883) July 21, 2022
FYI, just how large this is:
Did Donald Rumsfeld ever find that missing 2.3 TRILLION dollars he was looking for the day before 9/11 pic.twitter.com/ha0dtxVN3j
— MAJOR TOM – all sarcasm🙄 tut tut (@TheMajorTom7) September 4, 2021
The ultimate question:
Did planes hit WTC 9/11 or was it a controlled demolition
Asking for a friend
— Nebuchadnezzar ☀️⚡️ (@lIllIlllIIIll) September 11, 2022
Want more?
Let’s keep going…
CONFIRMED: Thermite Used In 9/11, Controlled Demolition?
They said “Never Forget”.
And we won’t.
Nearly 20 years after 9/11/01, the truth has yet to fully come out.
But we are not going to let it be forgotten.
We are not going to let it be swept under the rug of history.
But what are we “not forgetting”?
Let’s investigate….
Today we are examining whether Thermite was used.
Thermite is a mixture of aluminum powder and a metal oxide (such as iron oxide) that when ignited evolves a great deal of heat and is used in welding and in incendiary bombs.
It melts things like steel at temperatures much higher than any other fire or bomb could do.
In short, you remember the way the Twin Towers came down at free fall speed?
Many believe that is ONLY possible if it were lined with Thermite.
And here’s more proof….from the The Open Chemical Physics Journal, 2009, 2, 7-31, here is a deep dive of highly researched scientific findings.
Their conclusion?
The building was LOADED with thermite:
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
And for the visual learners out there, I have this….
This video that tells you a whole lot more….watch it safely here on Rumble:
And that’s not all.
Never forget that Donald Trump himself was the first person to say he did not believe even a plane could take down those towers.
He knows construction and he knew how those buildings were constructed.
In short? He says completely impossible.
Read this from Health Nut News:
Donald Trump is a professional builder. He’s spent much of his career in construction, building casinos and restaurants, and his opinion on the way the World Trade Centers came down is that of educated observation.
According to Rick Shaddock, Executive Director of the Association for Nine Eleven Truth Awareness, “Donald Trump was the first 9/11 Truther to speak out on TV, on the very same day, challenging the official story, and saying bombs must have been used, years before Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth was founded, from the perspective of people who know buildings are built to stand strong, even against planes.”
Indeed, Donald did call out the situation, claiming the immense strength of the steel beams and that the damage done must have been caused by explosives of some sort.
He also seemed to think that something other than the plane must have penetrated the building initially (which may or may not have been the case).
Of course, since his public exclamation, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth have laid out a convincing argument that explosives likely lined the inside of the building, enabling a controlled demolition. This, in their opinion, is the only way anyone could have gotten the buildings to fall straight down, in free-fall, like they did.
Here is the transcript from the video:
Alan Marcus: Donald you’re probably the best-known builder particularly of great buildings in the city. There’s a great deal of question about whether or not the damage and and the ultimate destruction of the buildings was caused by the airplanes by architectural defect or possibly by bombs or more after shocks you have any thoughts on that?
Donald Trump: It wasn’t architectural defect. The World Trade Center was always known as a very very strong building. Don’t forget that took a big bomb in the basement (1993). Now, the basement is the most vulnerable place because that’s your foundation and it withstood that and I got to see that area about three or four days after took place because one of my structural engineers actually took me for a tour because he did the building and I said “I can’t believe it”. The the building was standing solid and half of the columns were blown out. This was an unbelievably powerful building. If you don’t know anything about structure it was one of the first buildings that was built from the outside. The steel, the reason the World Trade Center had such narrow windows is that in between all the windows, you had the steel on the outside, the steel on the outside of the building.
That’s why when I first looked – and you had these big heavy i-beams. When I first looked at it, I couldn’t believe it, because there was a hole in the steel and this is steel that was, you remember the width of the windows of the World Trade Center folks. I think you know if you were ever up there, they were quite narrow and in between was this heavy steel. I said how could a plane, even a plane, even a 767 or 747 or whatever it might have been, how could it possibly go through this steel? I happen to think that they had not only a plane but they had bombs that exploded almost simultaneously, because I just can’t imagine anything being able to go through that wall. Most buildings are built with the steel on the inside around the elevator shaft. This one was built from the outside which is the strongest structure you can have and it was almost just like a can of soup
Rolland Smith: You know, Donald we were looking at pictures all morning long of that plane coming into building number two and when you see that approach the far side and and all of a sudden within a matter of milliseconds the explosion pops out the other side.
Donald Trump: Right. I just think that there was a plane with more than just fuel. I think obviously they were very big planes. They were going very rapidly, because I was also watching where the plane seemed to be not only going fast it seems to be coming down into the building. So is getting the speed from going down hill so to speak. It just seemed to me that to do that kind of destruction is even more than a big plane because you’re talking about talking about steel, the heaviest caliber steel that was used on the building. These buildings were rock-solid and you know it’s just an amazing amazing thing. This country is different today and it’s going to be different than it ever was for many years to come.
Now watch the video.
Here is Donald Trump back in 2001 explaining what he saw and what he believes.
Watch here on Rumble:
If you want more, please go to these resources:
Understanding The Use Of Thermite On 9-11
Theories that Aluminothermic Materials Were Used to Destroy the Twin Towers
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