Flutterby™! : Pentagon fraud and waste

Reuters: UNACCOUNTABLE: The Pentagon's Bad Bookkeeping:

In its annual report of department-wide finances for 2012 [PDF], the Pentagon reported $9.22 billion in “reconciling amounts” to make its own numbers match the Treasury’s, up from $7.41 billion a year earlier. It said that $585.6 million of the 2012 figure was attributable to missing records. The remaining $8 billion-plus represented what Pentagon officials say are legitimate discrepancies. However, a source with knowledge of the Pentagon's accounting processes said that because the report and others like it aren’t audited, they may conceal large amounts of additional plugs and other accounting problems.