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Excuse me, they paid $400 million for someone to tell them how they're spending their money??
It really is completely made up huh?
The Pentagon had like a trillion dollars completely unaccounted for in their budget vs actual spending so this is chump change
Oh yeah, that was the trillion dollars they announced they "lost" like a day before 9/11 right?
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld did not reveal that the Pentagon had lost $2.3 trillion the day before the September 11, 2001, attacks. The DoD had mentioned this number, which reflects transactions that could not be tracked, more than a year earlier.
So they ACKSHUALLY revealed they could not track 2.3 trillion dollars a year earlier (but yes, Rumsfeld also did have that speech September 10, 2001)
I'll bet you feel silly
Fact checkers are deeply unserious people.
9/11 was very expensive, it seems.
And very profitable for others.
That’s a masterful burying of bad news. But to be fair if I had to do presentation on how I’d lost a large countries GDP’s worth of money, I’d probably also do it the day before I knew a biggest news day for a deccade would be happening.
Pentagon: pays 400 million bucks for basically audit
Pentagon: still can't pass an official audit
lol yeah