The Pentagon has failed its yearly audit once again.
The Department of Defenses Chief Financial Officer has announced the Pentagon has failed its annual audit for the sixth time in a row.
Comptroller Mike McCord reported only seven out of the 29 individual sub-audits of the department passed this year.
The Hill reported close to 3.8 trillion dollars worth of assets are unaccounted for.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin I repose to the failed audit added a successful audit is still years away and added it “feels we need to be doing better at this and moving faster.”
The recent failure of the Pentagon's 6TH audit couldn't make it clearer that we need accountability & transparency. It's time to independently #AuditthePentagon. No institution is above scrutiny, especially the DoD w/ the largest budget of ANY fed agency. https://t.co/ATqPB3ZYlS
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) November 16, 2023
https://twitter.com/SociatUSA/status/1725286187571745004
Here’s what The Hill shared:
The Pentagon has failed its annual audit for the sixth year in a row, according to the Defense Department’s chief financial officer.
Out of 29 individual sub-audits of the department, only seven passed this year, the same as the year prior, Comptroller Mike McCord told reporters Wednesday.
One other received a “qualified” rating — a step down from passing — while three are ongoing and 18 were given failing grades, with no fraud found, he said. All sub-audits are required to pass for the overall audit to be approved.
McCord said that while “things are showing progress,” overall “it’s not enough.”
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin “feels we need to be doing better at this and moving faster,” but a successful audit is still years away, he added.
Federal law since the early 1990s requires mandatory audits for all government agencies. The Pentagon didn’t begin auditing itself until 2018 and has only had incremental improvement yearly.
https://twitter.com/leslibless/status/1725176283548565660
Per The Intercept:
THE U.S. MILITARY appears unfazed in its inability to account for billions of dollars. On Thursday, the Department of Defense failed its sixth consecutive audit — but hailed its “incremental progress.”
As the Pentagon budget nears a watershed $1 trillion — the largest of any federal government agency — it has never passed a single one of the annual audits mandated by Congress. In a press briefing, the Department of Defense said it had no timeline for passing an audit.
ADVERTISEMENT“We’ve heard the same platitudes about audit progress for years,” said Julia Gledhill, an analyst at the Project on Government Oversight’s Center for Defense Information. “They’re meaningless, especially since the Pentagon can’t even commit to a timeline for achieving a clean audit.”
“We’ve heard the same platitudes about audit progress for years. They’re meaningless.”
Former Pentagon comptroller Thomas Harker, now the secretary of the Navy, had publicly set a deadline of 2027 for a clean audit, but officials have since distanced the military from that timeframe. “Former comptroller Harker signaled 2027 back in 2020, but the department has completely rolled that back,” Gledhill said. “There’s no incentive to improve.”
Beginning in 2017, the audits are conducted by the Pentagon inspector general along with independent public accounting firms. The Defense Department is auditing $3.8 trillion in assets and $4 trillion in liabilities.
When’s the last time the Pentagon has passed an audit? The day before 9/11 Rumsfeld announced they couldn’t account for $2.3 TRILLION dollars…… WTF? It’s utter insanity!! pic.twitter.com/6qpaROaWJA
— GMama71 (@highmai81841246) November 16, 2023
Here is our prior coverage when the Pentagon failed it’s FIFTH Audit last year:
🚨 Pentagon Fails Audit, Can’t Account For Missing $2.1 Trillion!
This is a major red alert!
The Pentagon has just failed its (fifth ever) audit and can’t account for 61% of its assets, which amounts to a missing $2.1 Trillion!
Oopsies!
This is a red alert for two big reasons:
First, the obvious fact that $2.1 trillion of your tax payer dollars are GONE.
These people aren’t dumb…they didn’t just “lose” it.
This is what you get when you are laundering MASSIVE amounts of money.
How much of it went to Ukraine and then to FTX and then back to Democrats?
Most of it?
All of it?
Who knows…
The second reason is because the last time this happened was ONE DAY before 9/11 hit…and then the missing $2.3 trillion (back then) suddenly vanished from the news.
More on that in a minute.
First, take a look at this:
https://twitter.com/Nina_Metz/status/1596845684640010241
Can anyone tell me why in the hell they need $2 billion per day???
Are you kidding me?
This is nuts:
🤔💰The Pentagon just FAILED another audit and can’t account for $2 TRILLION (!!): https://t.co/cs0a8Bqz0s
Interesting how those who claim to care about fraud and waste never mention this. @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty @RepMarkGreen @timburchett @RepChuck @DesJarlaisTN04 pic.twitter.com/euhqlOqz7F
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) November 25, 2022
Don’t buy the BS that this is “missing” or “lost”.
It was funneled.
The Pentagon can’t account for assets worth more than the GDPs of all but 7 nations in the world. But, don’t worry; it’s not a flunk.
“Pentagon Fails to Pass New Financial Audit, Unable to Account for Over $2 Trillion in Assets”https://t.co/WwNzZNVQuC https://t.co/6fRt0h6Hys pic.twitter.com/Fm2QnXbVmM
— Laocoon of Troy (@LaocoonofTroy) November 27, 2022
The Pentagon/DOD has literally never passed an audit.
Never ever.
The US military is so awash with money & so unaccountable, that it's literally never passed an audit ever. https://t.co/GwgIAdi4DV
— Dwayne David Paul (@DwayneDavidPaul) November 26, 2022
The Hill had more details:
The Defense Department has failed its fifth-ever audit, unable to account for more than half of its assets, but the effort is being viewed as a “teachable moment,” according to its chief financial officer.
After 1,600 auditors combed through DOD’s $3.5 trillion in assets and $3.7 trillion in liabilities, officials found that the department couldn’t account for about 61 percent of its assets, Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord told reporters on Tuesday.
McCord said the department has made progress toward a “clean” audit in the past year, but later added “we failed to get an ‘A.’”
“I would not say that we flunked. The process is important for us to do, and it is making us get better. It is not making us get better as fast as we want,” he said.
This year’s outcome was not unexpected.
Federal law since the early 1990s requires mandatory audits for all government agencies, and since fiscal year 2013 all but the DOD have been able to satisfy that requirement.
The sheer size and scope of the department — which makes up for more than half of the U.S. discretionary spending and has assets that range from personnel and supplies to bases and weapons — makes it difficult to audit.
In December 2017, defense officials set out to scrutinize DOD’s books, the first comprehensive audit of the agency in its history. That effort failed the next year, and the four that followed.
The agency had never expected to pass, however, due to accounting issues officials said could take years to fix.
Because accounting records needed to complete the assessment were not available, all five audits received a “disclaimer of opinion,” though there have been improvements each time.
McCord, who served as Pentagon comptroller from 2009 to 2017 and again since June 2021, said the most recent audit required 220 in-person site visits and 750 virtual site visits by Pentagon officials and independent public accounting firm personnel.
What they found were several new weaknesses in how DOD accounted for its assets, which include nearly 2.9 million military personnel; equipment and weapons including 19,700 aircraft and more than 290 ships; and physical items including buildings, roads and fences on 4,860 sites worldwide.
To break up the work, the department holds 27 separate, smaller audits and then combines the information to get the bigger picture and prevent “having something on a record that doesn’t exist in reality or having big discrepancies.”
McCord said that while he prefers to focus on the progress in this year’s audit, each time “the progress is getting a little harder” due to “much of the lower hanging fruit having been picked,” meaning the simpler issues have already been weeded out.
Now let’s take a walk down memory lane to remember the last time this happened…
September 10, 2001 and we go to good old Rumy:
NEVER FORGET: Donald Rumsfeld On The Day Before 9/11: “We Can’t Account For a Missing $2.3 Trillion…”
Never Forget…
Never Forget Building 7, which I just wrote about.
And Never Forget what Donald Rumsfeld said the DAY BEFORE the tragic events.
Have you heard about this before?
Maybe not.
Literally just one day before 9/11/01, Donald Rumsfeld went on TV and announced that we just couldn’t account for a missing $2.3 trillion.
Awwww shucks!
Rumsfeld and GWB just couldn’t figure out where it all went!
Perhaps if all the records would also disappear, then it wouldn’t be such a big deal?
Now where do you suppose the records were stored….?
I’ll let you figure that one out.
Watch the clip safely here on Rumble:
Backups here:
https://twitter.com/HolmesThady/status/1568953859749330944
And here:
https://twitter.com/MarketeerMa/status/1568740323786117121
Just more coincidences:
Is it a coincidence Donald Rumsfeld announced $2.3 TRILLION was missing from the Pentagon the day before 9/11?
And the only video of the plane hitting the most secure building in the US, the Pentagon, wiping out all traces of the $ is this?#NeverForgetpic.twitter.com/rMKEZtynS8
— Conspiracies & Comics ✝️🇺🇸 (@ConspiraciesCo) September 11, 2022
Awwww shucks, maybe we shipped it on pallets to Iran?
Who the hell knows!
https://twitter.com/RSulliv15348672/status/1568800575592038401
Or this:
https://twitter.com/YellowstoneRan1/status/1569025627822641152
So many questions:
Never forget that the day after Rumsfeld mentioned missing 2.3 trillion dollars, a navy cruise missile impacted the Office of Naval Intelligence at the Pentagon where the computers were kept which stored that information…. and the money trail was lost. pic.twitter.com/3geUOK9Z5a
— John McCool (@JohnMcC96259883) July 21, 2022
FYI, just how large this is:
https://twitter.com/TheMajorTom7/status/1434126742411747331
The ultimate question:
Did planes hit WTC 9/11 or was it a controlled demolition
Asking for a friend
— Nebuchadnezzar (@lIllIlllIIIll) September 11, 2022
Want more?
Let’s keep going…
CONFIRMED: Thermite Used In 9/11, Controlled Demolition?
They said “Never Forget”.
And we won’t.
Nearly 20 years after 9/11/01, the truth has yet to fully come out.
But we are not going to let it be forgotten.
We are not going to let it be swept under the rug of history.
But what are we “not forgetting”?
Let’s investigate….
Today we are examining whether Thermite was used.
Thermite is a mixture of aluminum powder and a metal oxide (such as iron oxide) that when ignited evolves a great deal of heat and is used in welding and in incendiary bombs.
It melts things like steel at temperatures much higher than any other fire or bomb could do.
In short, you remember the way the Twin Towers came down at free fall speed?
Many believe that is ONLY possible if it were lined with Thermite.
And here’s more proof….from the The Open Chemical Physics Journal, 2009, 2, 7-31, here is a deep dive of highly researched scientific findings.
Their conclusion?
The building was LOADED with thermite:
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
And for the visual learners out there, I have this….
This video that tells you a whole lot more….watch it safely here on Rumble:
And that’s not all.
Never forget that Donald Trump himself was the first person to say he did not believe even a plane could take down those towers.
He knows construction and he knew how those buildings were constructed.
In short? He says completely impossible.
Read this from Health Nut News:
Donald Trump is a professional builder. He’s spent much of his career in construction, building casinos and restaurants, and his opinion on the way the World Trade Centers came down is that of educated observation.
According to Rick Shaddock, Executive Director of the Association for Nine Eleven Truth Awareness, “Donald Trump was the first 9/11 Truther to speak out on TV, on the very same day, challenging the official story, and saying bombs must have been used, years before Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth was founded, from the perspective of people who know buildings are built to stand strong, even against planes.”
Indeed, Donald did call out the situation, claiming the immense strength of the steel beams and that the damage done must have been caused by explosives of some sort.
He also seemed to think that something other than the plane must have penetrated the building initially (which may or may not have been the case).
Of course, since his public exclamation, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth have laid out a convincing argument that explosives likely lined the inside of the building, enabling a controlled demolition. This, in their opinion, is the only way anyone could have gotten the buildings to fall straight down, in free-fall, like they did.
Here is the transcript from the video:
Alan Marcus: Donald you’re probably the best-known builder particularly of great buildings in the city. There’s a great deal of question about whether or not the damage and and the ultimate destruction of the buildings was caused by the airplanes by architectural defect or possibly by bombs or more after shocks you have any thoughts on that?
Donald Trump: It wasn’t architectural defect. The World Trade Center was always known as a very very strong building. Don’t forget that took a big bomb in the basement (1993). Now, the basement is the most vulnerable place because that’s your foundation and it withstood that and I got to see that area about three or four days after took place because one of my structural engineers actually took me for a tour because he did the building and I said “I can’t believe it”. The the building was standing solid and half of the columns were blown out. This was an unbelievably powerful building. If you don’t know anything about structure it was one of the first buildings that was built from the outside. The steel, the reason the World Trade Center had such narrow windows is that in between all the windows, you had the steel on the outside, the steel on the outside of the building.
That’s why when I first looked – and you had these big heavy i-beams. When I first looked at it, I couldn’t believe it, because there was a hole in the steel and this is steel that was, you remember the width of the windows of the World Trade Center folks. I think you know if you were ever up there, they were quite narrow and in between was this heavy steel. I said how could a plane, even a plane, even a 767 or 747 or whatever it might have been, how could it possibly go through this steel? I happen to think that they had not only a plane but they had bombs that exploded almost simultaneously, because I just can’t imagine anything being able to go through that wall. Most buildings are built with the steel on the inside around the elevator shaft. This one was built from the outside which is the strongest structure you can have and it was almost just like a can of soup
Rolland Smith: You know, Donald we were looking at pictures all morning long of that plane coming into building number two and when you see that approach the far side and and all of a sudden within a matter of milliseconds the explosion pops out the other side.
Donald Trump: Right. I just think that there was a plane with more than just fuel. I think obviously they were very big planes. They were going very rapidly, because I was also watching where the plane seemed to be not only going fast it seems to be coming down into the building. So is getting the speed from going down hill so to speak. It just seemed to me that to do that kind of destruction is even more than a big plane because you’re talking about talking about steel, the heaviest caliber steel that was used on the building. These buildings were rock-solid and you know it’s just an amazing amazing thing. This country is different today and it’s going to be different than it ever was for many years to come.
Now watch the video.
Here is Donald Trump back in 2001 explaining what he saw and what he believes.
Watch here on Rumble:
If you want more, please go to these resources:
Understanding The Use Of Thermite On 9-11
Theories that Aluminothermic Materials Were Used to Destroy the Twin Towers
9/11 – Who Put Thermite In The World Trade Center?
Is this where all the Pentagon money keeps going?
To Ukraine?
For Money Laundering?
UKRAINE BOMBSHELL: “Give Us Loans, We Will Pay You Back!”
Well, this is “rich”….
And as you know, I don’t like to use the word “Bombshell” very often, but this is one case where it’s merited.
I’ll explain why down below the video I’m about to show you….
Zelensky is now begging the U.S. for loans.
Quote: “If you can’t give us financial support, give us credit and we will give you back money!”
Watch here:
BREAKING: Zelensky goes on NBC, now pitches public loans from the United States.
'Give us credit, and we will pay you back after the war'https://t.co/MKcOnGfqGx
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 7, 2023
And for those who are saying it’s fake (you never know these days), it’s not.
It coms directly from a full video posted by NBC News:
100% real. 29-min markhttps://t.co/k09uCyC8Nt
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 7, 2023
Credit to anyone who actually sat through listening to this coke head stumble his way through this interview.
I watched less than a minute and could barely take it.
But the relevant part comes just after the 29:00 minute mark of this video posted by NBC News:
But here’s the part I find the most interesting….the Bombshell that almost no one is talking about.
Are you REALLY telling me that all the money we sent over, all the billions upon billions of dollars, was just a GIFT?
You can’t be serious, it was just given away?
It wasn’t a loan?
Even an interest free loan?
We didn’t get any promises to get the money back after the war?
ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?
I do believe that every time the USA fought a war, if it received money from other countries it was in the form of DEBT!
ChatGPT confirms:
Revolutionary War (1775–1783)
- French Assistance: The U.S. incurred its first significant foreign debt during the Revolutionary War when it borrowed money from France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic to finance the war effort against Britain. France provided not only military assistance but also crucial financial support. The debt to France and other countries accumulated as the new nation sought to gain independence.
19th Century
- War of 1812: The U.S. took on more debt during the War of 1812 as it faced Great Britain once again. However, this debt was largely managed through domestic means rather than relying heavily on foreign creditors.
World War I (1914–1918)
- Liberty Bonds: During World War I, the United States began borrowing extensively to finance the war effort. Although the U.S. initially remained neutral, it provided loans to the Allies before entering the war in 1917. After entering the war, the U.S. issued Liberty Bonds to cover the costs.
Interwar Period
- Repayment and Lending: In the interwar period, the U.S. was a creditor nation, with many European countries owing substantial debts from WWI. The roles reversed somewhat after the Great Depression, with the U.S. borrowing to stabilize its economy and later to ramp up for the possibility of another global conflict.
World War II (1939–1945)
- War Bonds and The New Deal: The cost of World War II was immense, and the U.S. financed it by issuing war bonds and increasing taxes. The New Deal programs had already increased the national debt, but the war efforts required even more borrowing.
Post-World War II and Cold War Era
- Marshall Plan and Global Leadership: After WWII, the U.S. emerged as a global superpower and began to spend heavily on programs like the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe. Although this was more about giving aid than borrowing, it set the stage for a global economic system where the U.S. dollar became the world’s reserve currency, leading to complex financial interdependencies with other nations.
Late 20th Century to Present
- Ongoing Borrowing: The United States has continued to borrow for various reasons, including military engagements, economic stimulus packages, and to finance budget deficits. It has issued government securities, such as Treasury bonds, bills, and notes, that are purchased by both domestic and foreign investors. This is where the current foreign-held debt originates.
So let me see if I have this right….
When WE save the world, we have to pay all the money back.
When Ukraine begs for money, we gave it away as a GIFT?
This is beyond criminal negligence of our elected leaders!
THIS IS TREASON!
It makes no sense, unless……unless it was all part of a very carefully crafted Money Laundering Scheme?
Hmmmmm.
I’ve seen Ozark….you can’t really repay the debt if you’re trying to launder the money.
Is that what all this has been about since Day 1?
Of course, we’ve reported on that extensively and once again our reporting appears to have been DEAD ON accurate:
FTX Money Laundering Scheme To Ukraine CONFIRMED?
Buckle up folks!
I have a MAJOR update on a story we first brought you back in the Fall of 2022.
“Fall” is appropriate because that’s when crypto firm FTX had its massive fall from grace.
And now just this week it looks like we may have confirmation that our reporting back in 2022 was 100% accurate.
Imagine that.
Let me back up for just a minute in case we have people who are new to this story or who need a refresher.
I’ll publish our full reporting from 2022 down below but here’s the quick recap…
This image explains it perfectly:
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) November 13, 2022
You pay taxes…
Taxes out the ears!
Then the US Government takes your tax dollars and sends billions upon billions over to Ukraine…
Ukraine then invested a big chunk of that money in FTX (that’s called money laundering)…
FTX donates huge amounts back to the Democrat party…
The Democrats then use that money to buy, influence and steal elections.
What a great system!
And if you think that’s just crazy Noah coming up with a crazy conspiracy theory, it’s not.
Here is Elon Musk exposing it too:
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2022
NOW does it make sense why billions of your tax dollars are going to Ukraine every month?
You didn’t honestly think we were just giving it all away, did you?
Of course not!
It’s a complex money laundering operation!
Ok, now here’s the update.
Prepare to have your mind blown.
This is truly “hidden in plain sight”.
So we start here with the understanding that after FTX collapsed it owed customers about $8.7 BILLION:
JUST IN: New report shows FTX owed its customers $8.7 BILLION after commingling and misusing their deposits.
Take your #Bitcoin off exchanges!!
— Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) June 26, 2023
Ok, you with me so far?
FTX is in the hole $8.7 BILLY.
But remember, FTX was a key player in the money laundering operation, so they have to be made whole.
Then this happens:
Pentagon has said that an accounting error has provided an extra $6.2 billion dollars for Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/wpVBTWsEOR
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) June 24, 2023
Remember that from last week?
The Pentagon “accidentally” sent Ukraine $6.2 billion dollars!
So, uh, when you accidentally send $6.2 billy, do you call and get a refund or something?
Of course that’s an EXTRA $6.2 billion on top of the billions we are sending weekly:
Last week the Pentagon said that they accidentally sent Ukraine an extra 6.2 Billion dollars. Today the White House said they are sending more money this week! 🤡 pic.twitter.com/tTviaDdPCl
— Jeff (@ISO_XRP) June 26, 2023
How did Ukraine get an extra $6.2 billion from the Pentagon? pic.twitter.com/bNrCIyWsZK
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