{"id":4045,"date":"2020-12-20T00:03:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T00:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4045"},"modified":"2020-12-20T00:03:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T00:03:30","slug":"pentagon-fails-another-audit-will-likely-get-budget-increase-from-congress-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4045","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Fails Another Audit, Will Likely Get Budget Increase From Congress Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The third time wasn&#8217;t the charm for the Pentagon, which has once again failed to successfully complete an audit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas Harker, the Pentagon&#8217;s comptroller,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-pentagon-auditor-idUSKBN27X03P\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told Reuters<\/a>&nbsp;that it could be another seven years before the department can pass an audit\u2014something that it has never accomplished. Previous attempts in 2018 and 2019 turned up literally&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2019\/11\/22\/pentagons-second-audit-identifies-1300-new-problems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thousands of problems<\/a>&nbsp;with the Pentagon&#8217;s accounting system and millions of dollars&#8217; worth of missing equipment.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"9qaVDPw7qc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/11\/17\/pentagon-fails-another-audit-will-likely-get-budget-increase-from-congress-anyway\/\">Pentagon Fails Another Audit, Will Likely Get Budget Increase From Congress Anyway<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Pentagon Fails Another Audit, Will Likely Get Budget Increase From Congress Anyway&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/11\/17\/pentagon-fails-another-audit-will-likely-get-budget-increase-from-congress-anyway\/embed\/#?secret=rC7iEyPv73#?secret=9qaVDPw7qc\" data-secret=\"9qaVDPw7qc\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The third time wasn&#8217;t the charm for the Pentagon, which has once again failed to successfully complete an audit.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Harker, the Pentagon&#8217;s comptroller, told Reuters that it could be another seven years before the department can pass an audit\u2014something that it has never accomplished. Previous attempts in 2018 and 2019 turned up literally thousands of problems with the Pentagon&#8217;s accounting system and millions of dollars&#8217; worth of missing equipment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1110,450,167,259,335,619],"class_list":["post-4045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-audit","tag-budget","tag-government","tag-military","tag-pentagon","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4046,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions\/4046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}