Federal Jack(WASHINGTON TIMES) A government oversight agency says the Pentagon has lost track of more than 40 percent of the $626 million in firearms it has provided to Afghanistan’s security forces, prompting officials to contemplate a “carrot and stick” approach to arming the fledgling military.
A Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction report scheduled to be made public Monday says the Pentagon’s two primary information systems that track weapons sent to Afghanistan — the Operational Verification of Reliable Logistics Oversight Database and the Security Cooperation Information Portal — are rife with errors.
Although the oversight agency cannot say at this point whether any of the arms have made their way into neighboring countries such as Pakistan, the flawed tracking methods are fostering fears that militants could gain control of Pentagon-supplied weapons.
Jeffrey Brown, senior audit manager for the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, said those weapons could very well “go on the black market and enter another country.”
“We have no evidence that it has,” he said. “But that wasn’t really in the scope of our audit.”
The Pentagon did not “lose track” of anything. The Washington Times is being paid to tell you minions a fairy tale to hide the fact the Pentagon has no intention of being held accountable for using your tax dollars to fund crime disguised as “logistics” as the GAO starts accounting and preparing for gov’t end of year close out before September 30. Just another story to cover their arses in case FOIA requests arise.
I’m sure they’ll spare no effort in tracking down every last one of those weapons.
To save the taxpayers money, of course.