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In the discussion thread: Why isn't everyone MAD AS HELL that they are NOT AUDITING THE PENTAGON? (Update: Now With Petition) [View all]

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Wed Jan 23, 2013, 12:07 PM

Fight2Win (157 posts)

24. video 2001, apparently CBS did their job at the time, the person who did care about missing money

The Investigator was a former marine auditing the pentagon and found problems, he was shocked when asked the question 'why do you care' and then he was quickly reassigned.

Congressmen John Murtha and Jim Moran shrug off a question about the Pentagon missing $2.3 Trillion, "you must mean Billions"

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87 replies	Author	Time	Post
Why isn't everyone MAD AS HELL that they are NOT AUDITING THE PENTAGON? (Update: Now With Petition) [View all]	Fight2Win	Jan 2013	OP
K&R	LiberalEsto	Jan 2013	#1
Small Wonder	robertogt	Jan 2013	#59
CT or real?	Agschmid	Jan 2013	#63
Rummy made the statement regarding the $2.3 trillion that is unaccounted for:	think	Jan 2013	#65
thanks. n/t	Agschmid	Jan 2013	#67
Very not real	zappaman	Jan 2013	#74
My bad.	think	Jan 2013	#77
Could one get 100,000 signatures for a White House petition to demand	think	Jan 2013	#2
that is a great idea!	Fight2Win	Jan 2013	#5
I checked before posting hoping one had already been started	think	Jan 2013	#6
How about "Conduct a complete fiscal audit of all Military and DHS Spending."	Scuba	Jan 2013	#8
Spot on	think	Jan 2013	#9
awesome! Great idea!!	Fight2Win	Jan 2013	#12
It only makes sense fiscally and morally for the Pentagon & DHS	think	Jan 2013	#13
Here is a petition posted here in Dec:	think	Jan 2013	#21
that one is pretty good, but I have the feeling that yours will be even better	Fight2Win	Jan 2013	#32
Scuba started a petition:	think	Jan 2013	#38
I just posted this on my favorite conservative forum	Victor_c3	Jan 2013	#55
yes, why wouldn't every Republican be screaming loudly about this?	Fight2Win	Jan 2013	#72
Dude. Just say "Audit the Pentagon" and give the Huffpo link.	merrily	Jan 2013	#44
FIND THE MONEY	Angry Dragon	Jan 2013	#3
We can be all kinds of mad, but we can't do much about it. The article states that the earliest	TwilightGardener	Jan 2013	#4
why? That is unacceptable. I highly doubt the government would accept that from taxpayers	Fight2Win	Jan 2013	#14
I have no idea who is (or has been) in charge of the DoD's accounting and book-keeping.	TwilightGardener	Jan 2013	#20
video 2001, apparently CBS did their job at the time, the person who did care about missing money	Fight2Win	Jan 2013	#24
Terrible.	topcat007	Jan 2013	#7
You are correct that it should be audited but I wonder when the last time was that it happened?	jwirr	Jan 2013	#10
They depend heavily on outside contracters	HipChick	Jan 2013	#11
And in the meantime . . .	Brigid	Jan 2013	#15
+1000000	Fight2Win	Jan 2013	#17
It's a secret	Demo_Chris	Jan 2013	#16
SUPPORT OUR DEFENSE CONTRACTORS!	hay rick	Jan 2013	#18
LOL!	merrily	Jan 2013	#45
Because on Sept 10, 2001	hootinholler	Jan 2013	#19
A trillion here. A trillion there. What's the problem?	think	Jan 2013	#22
Just another day in the MIC. nt	valerief	Jan 2013	#40
The average citizen is screwed. Beyond screwed.	bigwillq	Jan 2013	#23
Rep. DeFazio is a critic of the Pentagon's lack of accountability.	hay rick	Jan 2013	#25
K & R. Dead on. nt	Hun Joro	Jan 2013	#26
How do we know this isn't symptomatic of the entire Federal Government?	dkf	Jan 2013	#27
You are probably correct in your surmise	think	Jan 2013	#35
It probably is, but Defense gets the big bucks.	merrily	Jan 2013	#46
K&R!	G_j	Jan 2013	#28
Link to WH petition: "Conduct a complete fiscal audit of all Military and DHS Spending."	Scuba	Jan 2013	#29
Signed it. Thanks for getting the ball rolling Scuba. /nt	think	Jan 2013	#39
We also serve, who only sit and type.	Scuba	Jan 2013	#49
Signed. nt	hay rick	Jan 2013	#41
I'm #13.	Brigid	Jan 2013	#50
Signer #16....done. nt.	OldDem2012	Jan 2013	#51
Signed it	2naSalit	Jan 2013	#66
No accountability = Taxation without representation. I'll gladly sign.	DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav	Jan 2013	#30
Impose a windfall tax	JEB	Jan 2013	#31
Smedley Butler suggested 100% tax on war profiteers during war, set price for commodities during war	Fight2Win	Jan 2013	#33
Love me some Smedley Butler.	Brigid	Jan 2013	#47
+1,000	Scuba	Jan 2013	#53
It'd be extremely patriotic of the military industry corporations to do this too!	think	Jan 2013	#54
yes	Fight2Win	Jan 2013	#75
Another institution that is "too big to fail".	former9thward	Jan 2013	#34
Because beating one's head against a brick wall...	99Forever	Jan 2013	#36
parasitic infestations, layers of them.	patrice	Jan 2013	#37
but... but... but.... haven't you heard the latest NEEOOOzzzzz uhbout TE'O???	Amonester	Jan 2013	#42
Next, you'll want them to reduce the military bases in the red states!	dmosh42	Jan 2013	#43
K&R	JDPriestly	Jan 2013	#48
I'm with you, Fight2Win...	Aldo Leopold	Jan 2013	#52
HUGE K&R	avaistheone1	Jan 2013	#56
Only 20 more signatures required for the petition to reach 100,000.	Egalitarian Thug	Jan 2013	#57
20 signed. 99,980 to go. /nt	think	Jan 2013	#60
Not 20, 99,977	dreamnightwind	Jan 2013	#68
Oops.	Egalitarian Thug	Jan 2013	#70
Too big to fail!	Frustratedlady	Jan 2013	#58
Over Cheney's Dead Body	Blue Owl	Jan 2013	#61
Could somebody please check his pulse.....	think	Jan 2013	#62
We The People have lost our Democracy is why.	PufPuf23	Jan 2013	#64
Yep, we are played like fools.	woo me with science	Jan 2013	#76
24 signatures as of 3:13 pm.	Brigid	Jan 2013	#69
Cost-plus, no-bid contracts?	duhneece	Jan 2013	#71
+100000	Fight2Win	Jan 2013	#73
signed	RedCappedBandit	Jan 2013	#78
kick	Fight2Win	Jan 2013	#79
The Audit Agencies have shrunk dramatically.	cpamomfromtexas	Jan 2013	#80
A 50% cut will get us to PRE 9-11 levels.	grahamhgreen	Jan 2013	#81
kick	Fight2Win	Jan 2013	#82
Kick	woo me with science	Jan 2013	#83
Only 36 signatures as of 7 pm today.	Brigid	Jan 2013	#84
we should not listen to one more Republican complain about the debt	Fight2Win	Jan 2013	#85
signed and kicked	okaawhatever	Jan 2013	#86
Can we make Boehner answer to this? Limbaugh, Glenn Beck,Oreily??	Fight2Win	Jan 2013	#87

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