Lee Camp: With $21 Trillion Unaccounted For, Pentagon Whistleblowers Please Form a Line

“According to a Department of Defense official, the Army found 39 Blackhawk Helicopters…similarly the Air Force found 478 buildings…HOW DO YOU LOSE A GODDAMN BUILDING!?” — Political comedian and host of Redacted Tonight Lee Camp

Nick Rehwaldt
By Nick Rehwaldt
Lee Camp | Pentagon Waste

Opinion -- Between 1998 and 2015 the Pentagon has failed to account for $21 trillion in taxpayer money. Michigan State Professor Mark Skidmore and a team of graduate students discovered this when poring over documents for the Department of Defense and Housing and Urban Development. The analysis was done using publicly available information from the

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Non-Military Federal Agencies Under Trump Expand Already Enormous Arsenals

Given that during the height of the Iraq War the Army used around 6 million rounds per month, with its planned purchase of 1.6 billion rounds, DHS would have ammo left over after matching the Army’s peak daily outpouring of hot lead for two solid decades.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Ammunition | Weapons

WASHINGTON -- The massive purchases of ammo and weapons by non-military federal agencies, like the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Social Security Administration (SSA), that first began under the Obama administration has continued unabated under the Trump administration, while receiving less media coverage. According to a report released last

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Justice Department Has No Idea If Their Incarceration Alternatives Work

The Justice Department’s ignorance gives contractors an opening for more business without having to prove that their lucrative services actually provide the support needed to reduce recidivism.

Brian Sonenstein
By Brian Sonenstein
Razor wire at the maximum-security Mount Olive Correctional Center in Mount Olive, W.Va. (AP/Steve Helber)

The Justice Department is not evaluating the performance of pretrial diversion programs, residential re-entry centers, and home confinement, according to congressional testimony from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Under President Barack Obama administration, the Justice Department sought to reduce booming federal prison populations

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US Spent $350B On Climate Change Related Disaster Relief In Last Decade

Trump has repeatedly called climate change a hoax and withdrew the United States from the United Nations Paris climate agreement in June.

Matthew Renda
By Matthew Renda
Western Wildfires

A nonpartisan congressional investigative agency has released a report detailing the escalating costs of climate change-related weather events, and says the federal government must do more to grapple with fiscal problems caused by global shifts in climate. The Government Accountability Office used data from several federal agencies to estimate

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DOD, HUD Defrauded Taxpayers Of $21 Trillion From 1998 To 2015

The amount unaccounted for over this period adds up to $65,000 for each man, woman and child resident in America. By comparison, the cost per taxpayer of all U.S. wars waged since 9/11 has been $7,500 per taxpayer. The sum is also larger than the current national debt.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
U.S. Army M2A2 and M2A3 Bradley fighting vehicles are unloaded at a pier in Busan, South Korea, June 29, 2011. (AP/Yonhap, Kim Sun-ho)

Last year, a Reuters article brought renewed scrutiny to the budgeting practices of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), specifically the U.S. Army, after it was revealed that the department  had “lost” $6.5 trillion in 2015 due to “wrongful budget adjustments.” Nearly half of that massive sum, $2.8 trillion, was lost in just one quarter. Reuters

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FBI Facial Recognition Technology Has ‘No Limits,’ Congressional Hearing Reveals

Law enforcement has access to photos of 50 percent of all adult Americans without their knowledge or consent.

Nika Knight
By Nika Knight
FBI

If Congress doesn't take legislative action, the FBI's vast and growing facial recognition database could someday soon allow the government to track Americans' "every move" in a breathtaking, nationwide violation of the Fourth Amendment. That was the takeaway of a scathing hearing in the Congressional Oversight Committee on the FBI's use of

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