In article <0%pwi.892$Vd.428@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Mandra <Signater@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Dov Zakheim and the Missing Trillions
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>http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com
>Monday, August 6
>From: Nila Sagadevan <nila22@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>What is the most outrageous piece of news that isn't being discussed?
>I would venture to say it is the strange tale of Dov Zakheim and
>the missing trillions. I hear all kinds of numbers. I hear 2.3
>trillion from Rumsfield and I hear about one trillion that Zakheim
The money isn't "missing", they just can't account for how much the
spent on which activities. Nobody says the money was stolen.
By JOHN M. DONNELLY The Associated Press 03/03/00 5:44 PM Eastern
WA****NGTON (AP) -- The military's money managers last year made
almost $7 trillion in adjustments to their financial ledgers in an
attempt to make them add up, the Pentagon's inspector general said
in a re****t released Friday.
The Pentagon could not show receipts for $2.3 trillion of those
changes, and half a trillion dollars of it was just corrections of
mistakes made in earlier adjustments.
Each adjustment represents a Defense Department accountant's
attempt to correct a discrepancy. The military has hundreds of
computer systems to run accounts as diverse as health care, payroll
and inventory. But they are not integrated, don't produce numbers
up to accounting standards and fail to keep running totals of
what's coming in and what's going out, Pentagon and congressional
officials said.
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