🔥💰US Government Admits It Lost Track of BILLIONS in Weapons Sent to Israel - Violating Multiple American Laws. Will This Ever End?

This is how bipartisan complicity works: flood Israel with weapons, lose the paperwork, dodge accountability

The Pentagon Inspector General just released a report that should be front-page news everywhere. Not because it’s complicated, but because it’s simple.

The United States sent $13.4 billion in military aid and weapons to Israel — and the Department of Defense did not properly track huge portions of it. I mean over half!

Let that sit for a second. This isn’t about paperwork. This is about power. This is about a weapons pipeline that helps fuel mass slaughter, and an accountability system designed to fail.

Before I break down what the report says and why it matters, I want to ask you from the heart to become a member today. I keep this work free for the world—for readers in Gaza, for students in public schools, for families living in deep poverty, for elders on fixed incomes—because a smaller circle of people who can afford it chooses to carry the cost. Please click here to become a member and please click here to join as a monthly, annual, or founding member. Your support keeps this work free for them, and even for you when you can’t afford to pay.

Now here’s what this report actually reveals.

A Pentagon Inspector General audit concluded that the Department of Defense did not properly track significant portions of the $13.4 billion in military aid provided to Israel after October 2023. By November 2024, the Pentagon reportedly maintained records for only 44% of defense items subject to Enhanced End-Use Monitoring. Before the genocide accelerated weapons shipments, tracking was at 69%. Not great, but functional. Then the moment the world needed the most oversight, oversight collapsed.

Between October 2023 and April 2024, the report says U.S. officials were unable to track 42 deliveries totaling more than four million munitions because much of the equipment had already been deployed in Israel’s military operations.

Read that again: more than four million munitions from 42 deliveries that the Pentagon says it could not properly track.

They don’t even disclose the full list of what was missed. The audit is partially redacted and does not detail the types of defense articles involved. In other words, the public is asked to accept a foggy confession and then move on.

And of course, the Pentagon’s excuses are exactly what you’d expect: staffing constraints and “changes in the operational environment.”

Staffing constraints? The Department of Defense operates with an annual budget that makes most countries look like small businesses. If the Pentagon can build aircraft carriers and fund endless overseas operations, it can hire enough people to track where billions of dollars in weapons go.

“Operational environment”? Israel is doing the fighting. American personnel are doing oversight. Nobody is being asked to update spreadsheets in a trench in Rafah. This is paperwork in offices. And if the paperwork collapses right when the shipments accelerate, it’s reasonable to ask whether the collapse is not a bug, but a feature.

Because here is the truth: you cannot hold anyone accountable for what you never track in the first place.

That’s why this is so convenient for Washington.

In the halls of Congress, and throughout the American government, nothing is more bipartisan than sending billions and billions of American tax dollars to Israel. Under Biden, the pipeline expanded and the cover never stopped. Under Trump, the pipeline continues and the rhetoric gets even more aggressive. Different slogans, same policy: Israel gets the weapons. America gets the deniability.

And now, if someone asks, “Were U.S. weapons used in war crimes? Were they diverted? Did they end up in settlers’ hands? Did they end up on black markets? Did they end up in hostile hands?” the Pentagon can shrug and say, “We don’t have full visibility.”

That’s plausible deniability — manufactured through negligence.

And the Inspector General report doesn’t just treat this as a moral problem. It treats it as a national security risk. It reportedly warns that inadequate accountability increases the risk of sensitive U.S. weapons technology falling into the hands of hostile actors. The report says adversaries who obtain these defense items could gain firsthand access to sensitive U.S. weapon systems technology, decreasing U.S. technological advantage and increasing risk to the United States and its partners.

So the Pentagon is admitting something breathtaking: we don’t know where all these weapons went, and that creates risk not only for Palestinians, but for U.S. security too.

And yet, there is no national emergency. Nobody is fired. No one’s career ends. No one in Congress is racing to halt shipments until tracking is restored. The system keeps moving.

This is what impunity looks like.

Now let’s talk about international law in plain language, without euphemisms.

If you keep supplying a military with weapons while credible evidence shows those weapons are being used in widespread attacks on civilians, you don’t get to pretend you’re a neutral party. Under the Genocide Convention, states have obligations not only to punish genocide but to prevent it — and not to aid or assist it. Under the laws of war, civilians are protected, and mass harm to civilians is not excused by slogans.

So when the United States floods Israel with weapons during a period of mass civilian killing and then admits it can’t even track where millions of munitions went, that isn’t just “bad governance.” It is complicity wrapped in bureaucracy.

And it also violates the spirit — and arguably the requirements — of U.S. law. The report notes that federal law under the Arms Export Control Act requires end-use monitoring of defense articles sold, leased, or exported to foreign partners. The investigation also found that U.S. Central Command and the Defense Security Cooperation Agency did not conduct adequate oversight of the Enhanced End-Use Monitoring program in Israel.

That’s not a “mistake.” That’s a breakdown of the very system designed to prevent diversion and abuse.

And here’s the part that should make every American furious: this has happened before. The report notes similar tracking challenges in Iraq from 2013 to 2017. Meaning the Pentagon has already lived through “we lost track” in a war zone, and still did not build a system that prevents it from happening again. They’ve learned the wrong lesson: that they can lose track, shrug, and move on.

So when people ask why the machinery of violence never stops, understand that the problem is not a lack of information. The problem is a lack of consequences. The weapons keep flowing because the political cost of stopping them is higher than the moral cost of continuing them — and Washington has decided that Palestinian lives do not outweigh political convenience.

That’s why this report matters. It’s a receipt for how the U.S. funds atrocity: ship the weapons, collapse oversight, claim ignorance, avoid accountability.

And I need you to hear me on this: no nation or court has shown real willingness to hold the United States accountable for what it enables. America funds the institutions, pressures the courts, and punishes anyone who tries to enforce the rules. That reality makes public pressure the only tool that remains. If the law won’t do its job, the people have to demand that it does.

At minimum, this should be the demand: no more weapons transfers without real tracking, real verification, and real consequences for failure. No receipts, no shipments. No oversight, no transfers.

Because “we lost track” is not an excuse. It’s a confession.

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Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun

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