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Zaphod58
reply to post by southbeach
It was "missing" from as early as 1999.
In fiscal 1999, a defense audit found that about $2.3 trillion of balances, transactions and adjustments were inadequately documented. These "unsupported" transactions do not mean the department ultimately cannot account for them, she advised, but that tracking down needed documents would take a long time. Auditors, she said, might have to go to different computer systems, to different locations or access different databases to get information.
www.defense.gov...
There were 674 different computer accounting systems in the DoD system. Almost half a trillion of "missing" money was from adjustments as they tried to make all the systems talk to each other.
The entire budget for the DoD in 2000 was $1.8T, so the entire budget went missing, along with half a trillion more?
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