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The Pentagon’s Inspector General released a report on the spending of $6.5 billion for Ukraine
Originally published by AntiWar
The Pentagon’s watchdog warned Tuesday that some of the Defense Department’s practices for tracking the money being spent on Ukraine is hindering oversight efforts, Defense One reported.
The Pentagon’s Inspector General’s office released a report on the $6.5 billion that was given to the department as part of the $13.6 billion Ukraine aid bill that was signed by President Biden in March. The $6.5 billion was authorized to cover the cost of sending weapons to Ukraine and additional troop deployments in Eastern Europe.
The IG report reads: “As the DoD is building processes and procedures to ensure the transparency of the reporting for the Ukraine supplemental funds, we identified multiple areas of concern that, if not adequately addressed, could reduce the traceability of Ukraine supplemental funds and the transparency in the DoD’s reporting.”
The Pentagon is supposed to use a system for recording called Advancing Analytics or Advana. But the IG report said the Pentagon frequently used reporting systems that couldn’t feed into Advana and used another method that requires sharing fewer details to track transactions, known as journal vouchers.
“The use of summary journal vouchers is a concern because journal vouchers have the potential to limit the transparency of the funds, particularly if the summary journal vouchers do not trace back to the supporting transactions details,” the report says.
The Pentagon has come under pressure from some members of Congress over the lack of oversight for the billions of dollars in weapons and other aid that is being shipped to Ukraine. In response, Pentagon IG Sean O’Donnell told lawmakers that he formed a joint working group with the State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to work on oversight for the Ukraine aid.
The $40 Billion Ukraine aid bill Biden signed in May is separate from the funds that the IG report covered. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) tried to amend the bill so it would create a special inspector general for Ukraine aid, similar to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, but the effort failed.
Ukros are selling HYMARS for competitive prices. One of the happy buyers? Well, yes, you guess it – the Russian Federation. Once somebody told me that Ukros would sell their own mother, daughter, sister if the cash is right. No wonder Europeans call the country the brother of Europe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMKIRuJd5GU and NEW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3zQnkxxib4
I read a story that they did sell the Russians 2 Ceasar 155mm Howitzers , I have no doubt the Russians would love a fully loaded HIMARS. Time will tell if some Ukranian commander can pull that off though. I think the Russian would be just as happy to find and destroy them all right now.
* correction: brothel of Europe
Well what do we expect of USA, a place that represents the definition of corruption, tyranny, deception, anarchy, incompetency, and rot.
I don’t believe this. Who made the videos?
Everyone who knows, knows that there’s plenty of pro-Russia infiltrators in Ukraine’s government, Armed forces and intel community. It’s just a matter of time for very sophisticated intact NATO weapons to be acquired by Russia.
Russia should set up an easily accessible trading post in the middle of Ukraine with a dedicated mission to buy all war materials shipped covertly from the west,..With a little office built next to it to process the conversion of AFU into unarmed money-laden civilians for temporary relocation in Russia.
Russia has already transferred captured unused military assets to Siberia where those assets are available in the black market for a price. In addition, Ukrainian locals are even getting in the resale game and selling “carried once, dropped once” western small arms and I can’t say I blame them (income $480 Ukrainian (Hryvnia) Dollars a month or less.
“Bad Record keeping ” -who makes those statements -Donald Duck or Micky Mouse ?? Truth/actuality ??=it was 388 to 57 in favour in the House of the Representatives for a total of $40 Billion -even Sen..Bernie Sanders voted -Yes-24 Republicans wanted Accountability – never got it .
They didn’t REALLY want accountability, they just wanted it to look that way…for re-election purposes. As for the shitty record keeping? If I couldn’t come up with a better excuse than this, I wouldn’t even say anything. However, this ‘bad record keeping’ is a necessary part of the scam, it works for both (US,Ukr). The usual suspects in Ukr get the cash, and the thieves in DC get to launder the kick-back money that has been ‘appropriated’ to pay for it all. Everybody wins!! Well, except for the US taxpayer and Ukrainians in general. TBH, so-called accountability is highly over-rated…as in there really is no such thing, only the lies they tell us.
Well that’s been always the unifying and common practice among the Democrats and republicans…. Share the boodle among themselves.. politics a big (monkey) biznezz in the land of the enslaving and coward madafakas
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Wow!…
Who saw this one coming (https://www.ae911truth.org/evidence/technical-articles/articles-by-ae911truth/845-nist-confirms-its-building-7-report-is-indefensible-part-1-of-5-the-omitted-web-stiffeners) (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/mar/20/usa.iraq)!???…
Wow, indeed, LOL.
Speaking of both bad “book keeping” and the “checks” that come with them…
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/john-bolton-admits-he-helped-plan-foreign-coup-attempts
Does anyone have a date for his trial for war crimes in Moscow as the Hague is an absentee Landlord to the rule of law as they should have done something about when they knew he committed those crimes in earnest when he violated his oaths through these wanton acts of treason to his government!?…
Looks like Russia will have to do the “honors” if they want to change the direction of this problem that they aided and abetted in their indifference (https://theduran.com/putin-911-not-inside-job/) that got them into this mess as well!…
Haha. Quintessential understatement: “We identified multiple areas of concern that . . . could reduce the traceability of Ukraine supplemental funds …” Hm. Wonder into whose pockets this reduced traceability could be going.
Half of that money is stolen in Washington, and 3/4 of the remaining half – in Kiev.
You have to have the power to direct funding so nothing was actually “stolen” but merely $4.8B was “redistributed” to who knows where.
Congress passed the $40B Ukraine Aid Bill of which Ukraine was earmarked to receive $4B, Bidet received $4.8B (to spend as he pleases) and most of the remainder was divided among the military branches (likely to replace assets sent to Ukraine) with no spending oversight whatsoever. This is an excellent example of US financial irresponsibility.
Just what does anyone expect from a demented ice cream eating puppet leader. Bidet and our current congress have a collective IQ of a mosquito whose only purpose in life is to suck the taxpayer’s blood of their earning or put the cost of their agenda on our agenda for generations to come. Zelenskyy’s rule is about over and the sooner the better so the world can identify the US corruption participants and charge them accordingly. The Pro-Russian Citizens of eastern Ukraine need to see this happen for closure and their right to choose their own destiny peacefully restored.
Poor record keeping/oversight by a poor (p)Resident and poor fiscally irresponsible congress.
Why break a long-standing tradition?
Keep feeding ’em, USA. Make them fat and happy and willing to abandon Ukraine for their foreign villas. It’ll be a win/lose but alas, not in your favor.