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originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: pheonix358
It was missing only when an audit was ordered.
Rumsfield did not say it was missing.
There is an annual audit.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Zaphod58
Yeah. That's not where the money comes from. Here's a documentary about that.
No. That seems to be mostly a concern mostly of the Democrat committee members in the House of Representatives. But they, and Congress as a whole, are doing other things at the same time. Did you notice that the hearings were sometimes recessed so that the members could vote?
Main concern of congress, is how to impeach Trump
all the wording in the news said
Rumsfeld doesn't seem to have used that word but no, it means they don't know exactly what it was spent on. But rest assured, it was spent, as Zaphod pointed out.
"Unaccounted for" just really means, they don't know where the _____ it is.
Do you really believe they spend $300.00 on a hammer?
One problem: "There never was a $600 hammer," said Steven Kelman, public policy professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a former administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. It was, he said, "an accounting artifact."
The military bought the hammer, Kelman explained, bundled into one bulk purchase of many different spare parts. But when the contractors allocated their engineering expenses among the individual spare parts on the list-a bookkeeping exercise that had no effect on the price the Pentagon paid overall-they simply treated every item the same. So the hammer, originally $15, picked up the same amount of research and development overhead-$420-as each of the highly technical components, recalled retired procurement official LeRoy Haugh. (Later news stories inflated the $435 figure to $600.)