Scot J. Paltrow, Unaccountable: The high cost of the Pentagon’s bad bookkeeping. Reuters, 23 December 2013. “Part 3, Broken Fixes: Why the Pentagon’s many campaigns to clean up its accounts are failing…. Time and again, programs to modernize Defense Department record-keeping have fallen prey to bureaucratic rivalry, resistance to change and a lack of consequences for failure.” (Part 1 of this three-part series was published on 2 July 2013, and Part 2 was published on 18 November 2013.)
November 18, 2013
Unaccountable: The high cost of the Pentagon’s bad bookkeeping, Part 2
Scot J. Paltrow, Unaccountable: The high cost of the Pentagon’s bad bookkeeping. Reuters, 18 November 2013. “Part 2, Faking It: Behind the Pentagon’s doctored ledgers, a running tally of epic waste…. For two decades, the U.S. military has been unable to submit to an audit, flouting federal law and concealing waste and fraud totaling billions of dollars.” (Part 1 in this three-part series was published on 2 July 2013, and Part 3 was published on 23 December 2013.)