April 14, 2008

Investigative journalist Scot Paltrow reports at Portfolio about the Pentagon's accounting mess, on a dizzying scale:

For the first three quarters of 2007, $1.1 trillion in Army accounting entries hadn't been properly reviewed and substantiated, according to the Department of Defense's inspector general. In 2006, $258.2 billion of recorded withdrawals and payments from the Army's main account were unsupported. It's as if the Army had submitted multibillion-dollar expense reports without any receipts.


Posted by Laura at April 14, 2008 07:46 AM