Thank you for your clear and compelling explanation of just how this lack of accountability with actual consequences and the elevation of genocidal Usrael into some kind if shining light on the mountain that the U.S. is REQUIRED to support with zero conditions and persecute ANYONE who questions tge purpose fir such worship of another foreign nation who has been a very evil actor under the psychopathic criminal Netanyahu's macho, unfeeling, uncaring regime and, should you be brave enough ti di it, well, crouch down and cover your head because you are IMMEDIATELY going to be slurred and shamed fir being anti-semitic and you are likely to face real world, sonetimes quite severe personal repercussions that might destroy your ability to remain in the oh-so-glorious Unired Empire of America, your career, your ability to gain a position you have worked to achieve your entire life.
I mean, how DARE you have compassion for tge Palestinian people, their abject suffering, their loss of babies, children,mom's, dad's, grandparents, everyone as they are told to scramble abd MOVR to supposedly 'safer' areas of their tloccuoied territory and are murdered by Israel intentionally while on tge way there to that pretend safe zone.
WTF??? I keep hearing that Effing Israel us our best ally...not Canada, not Mexuci, nit tge UK, nit France -- without which, we would never have won out independence.
You tell me what Israel has ever done on behalf of us, except I guess lead us into complicity with mass murder of innocent civilians surviving by who knows what strength of character as they are used as meaningless subhuman pawns in some horrific political game that I and millions of other Americans NEVER agreed to.
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I WORKED FOR AN inspector General's office in tge Criminal Investigations Division of another large department for 33 or my 40 year gederal career. I Am relieved to hear that audits disclosing major problems like this one are still being completed and released. Even if incomplete and probably conveniently redacted. I was fearing that this horrific regime would have placed a ban on releasing any audits or SemiAnnual Reports to Congress (SARCs) required by law.
SARCs are an invaluable tool fir serious lawmakers. That category, of course, excludes ALL the craven, ass-kissing, boot-licking, shaneless, lying, power-hungry MAGA Repub babies in Congress.
(It does seem, I heaitate to even aay this, that some of the previously go-along-to-get-along non true believers who knew long ago that they were supporting a Soviet atyle lusters and shutters and issues threats abd stupid demeaning nicknames and calls for primary challenges at those who dare to whisper am eensy-weensy whisper of a modest objection to a single bullet in the daily massive gigantic firing squad shooting bs, chaos, and sheer unadulterated illegalities at all of every day, all day...
All the 'flood them with shit' shit that streams non-stop from the Prez's asshole-shaped mouth or from the curling evil lips of the most cliche-ish cartoonish villain to ever serve in an Oval Office advisor role in our history -- Stephen Miller, of course -- who the fuck else would that definition apply to? Oh, wait, that description COULD apply to way too many Trump app9ibtees...sorry).
I am way off track. Great article. GLAD I read your summary. Time for me to get that audit report. And SARCs on a regular schedule.
At least until some hidden little complicit little cog in the antu-democracy Trump machine, points out to his supervisors the existence of SARCs and their importance to good governance means that they are dangerous to the shady Trump Tower of Babble and Lies is already on shaky sand and Someone in MAGA Land orders them to be eliminated ASAP.
Thank you for your work. I am happy to have signed up to be a monthly donor to help a little for you to continue your workm
They lost " track " of the uranium stolen by Issahell in the 60's... Keeping quiet is their modus operandi, if you don't talk about it, it never happened right?
They stopped giving a hoot about accountability full stop.
Plain ugliness and evil staring us right in the face.
Lost my ass. Israel is stealing them and selling them. Just like they did when they were passing weapons on to the apartheid regime in south Africa. Israel is malevolent.
The irony is that the long established bictatorship that has run the US since it stopped being a single party state is in danger of falling apart over it's pet project, the Jewish State In Palestine militants.
The racist wing of the Republicans is tottering on return to their classic antisemitic stance, while their supremacist wing sees the Jewish State In Palestine as the replacement for alQeda as a cutout for overthrow and murder operations.
The compassionate wing of the Democrats has had their noses rubbed in the reality of what JSIP is and is revolting while the corporate wing sees profit in the chaos and destruction that JSIP causes.
This regime---I refuse to dignify it by calling it an"administration"---needs to be put out of our misery and the rest of the world's, STAT. The so-called missing money---our money, supposedly earmarked for our needs---is like Watergate on the most massive, horrific steroids of inhuman creation.
"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.
Thank you Shaun for bringing this to our attention. It’s disgusting that you are writing about untracked weapons sent to a country zealously killing innocent civilians in Palestine without tracking the shipments. It’s a horrible precedent. The fact that only 69% of the time they were properly tracked. We are complicit then. Can you imagine a hospital having a 69% rate of surgery but not knowing the failure or success rates? Unbelievable.
The loss of legitimate free reporting, what there was of it before DJT, is taking a terrible toll. We lost a free press a long time ago with incorporation. If it wasn't for you and all those in substack we would be literally in an information dead zone. That thought makes my skin crawl. I see people in the streets protesting, but I wonder how many are pounding on congressional doors demanding they do more. Congressional outrage these days is equivalent to their 'thoughts and prayers'. America has a habit of doing terrible harm while looking the other way. The karma for that continues to build. I am sick about this complete abandonment of Pentagon accountability but cannot feel worse than I do already.
Amazing how easily the US government can lose track of so many expensive and dangerous weapons that it sent to Israel, but it seems to want to know every minute detail of our lives so they can catch us out and deport us or lock us up in a torture prison. Funny how the big things are so easily missed but not the tiny things to keep the working class in their place.
The Hebrew Bible is the root of the problem. That's why Netanyahu holds Bible study classes. Israeli officials base their genocide of Palestinians on the Hebrew Bible which was written by ancient Jewish clergymen. They wrote it to promote Jewish supremacy and the Jewish state of Israel over all Gentile nations. https://www.deism.com/post/bible-based-jewish-superiority
We will only have change if we speak up. And we need to have those, like Shaun King, who share the facts. But it's up to all of us to act for good over evil.
That's OUR money. Being used for soooooo much evil. I can hardly stand it.
Thank you for your clear and compelling explanation of just how this lack of accountability with actual consequences and the elevation of genocidal Usrael into some kind if shining light on the mountain that the U.S. is REQUIRED to support with zero conditions and persecute ANYONE who questions tge purpose fir such worship of another foreign nation who has been a very evil actor under the psychopathic criminal Netanyahu's macho, unfeeling, uncaring regime and, should you be brave enough ti di it, well, crouch down and cover your head because you are IMMEDIATELY going to be slurred and shamed fir being anti-semitic and you are likely to face real world, sonetimes quite severe personal repercussions that might destroy your ability to remain in the oh-so-glorious Unired Empire of America, your career, your ability to gain a position you have worked to achieve your entire life.
I mean, how DARE you have compassion for tge Palestinian people, their abject suffering, their loss of babies, children,mom's, dad's, grandparents, everyone as they are told to scramble abd MOVR to supposedly 'safer' areas of their tloccuoied territory and are murdered by Israel intentionally while on tge way there to that pretend safe zone.
WTF??? I keep hearing that Effing Israel us our best ally...not Canada, not Mexuci, nit tge UK, nit France -- without which, we would never have won out independence.
You tell me what Israel has ever done on behalf of us, except I guess lead us into complicity with mass murder of innocent civilians surviving by who knows what strength of character as they are used as meaningless subhuman pawns in some horrific political game that I and millions of other Americans NEVER agreed to.
to.
I WORKED FOR AN inspector General's office in tge Criminal Investigations Division of another large department for 33 or my 40 year gederal career. I Am relieved to hear that audits disclosing major problems like this one are still being completed and released. Even if incomplete and probably conveniently redacted. I was fearing that this horrific regime would have placed a ban on releasing any audits or SemiAnnual Reports to Congress (SARCs) required by law.
SARCs are an invaluable tool fir serious lawmakers. That category, of course, excludes ALL the craven, ass-kissing, boot-licking, shaneless, lying, power-hungry MAGA Repub babies in Congress.
(It does seem, I heaitate to even aay this, that some of the previously go-along-to-get-along non true believers who knew long ago that they were supporting a Soviet atyle lusters and shutters and issues threats abd stupid demeaning nicknames and calls for primary challenges at those who dare to whisper am eensy-weensy whisper of a modest objection to a single bullet in the daily massive gigantic firing squad shooting bs, chaos, and sheer unadulterated illegalities at all of every day, all day...
All the 'flood them with shit' shit that streams non-stop from the Prez's asshole-shaped mouth or from the curling evil lips of the most cliche-ish cartoonish villain to ever serve in an Oval Office advisor role in our history -- Stephen Miller, of course -- who the fuck else would that definition apply to? Oh, wait, that description COULD apply to way too many Trump app9ibtees...sorry).
I am way off track. Great article. GLAD I read your summary. Time for me to get that audit report. And SARCs on a regular schedule.
At least until some hidden little complicit little cog in the antu-democracy Trump machine, points out to his supervisors the existence of SARCs and their importance to good governance means that they are dangerous to the shady Trump Tower of Babble and Lies is already on shaky sand and Someone in MAGA Land orders them to be eliminated ASAP.
Thank you for your work. I am happy to have signed up to be a monthly donor to help a little for you to continue your workm
They lost " track " of the uranium stolen by Issahell in the 60's... Keeping quiet is their modus operandi, if you don't talk about it, it never happened right?
They stopped giving a hoot about accountability full stop.
Plain ugliness and evil staring us right in the face.
Keep spreading awareness brother Shaun ✊🏽
Spot on. Absolutely correct.
Lost my ass. Israel is stealing them and selling them. Just like they did when they were passing weapons on to the apartheid regime in south Africa. Israel is malevolent.
Indeed
Disappointed with this government is the ultimate understatement.
Absolutely
Nope NO CONSEQUENCES NO CHANGE
The irony is that the long established bictatorship that has run the US since it stopped being a single party state is in danger of falling apart over it's pet project, the Jewish State In Palestine militants.
The racist wing of the Republicans is tottering on return to their classic antisemitic stance, while their supremacist wing sees the Jewish State In Palestine as the replacement for alQeda as a cutout for overthrow and murder operations.
The compassionate wing of the Democrats has had their noses rubbed in the reality of what JSIP is and is revolting while the corporate wing sees profit in the chaos and destruction that JSIP causes.
No CONSEQUENCES NO CHANGE
This regime---I refuse to dignify it by calling it an"administration"---needs to be put out of our misery and the rest of the world's, STAT. The so-called missing money---our money, supposedly earmarked for our needs---is like Watergate on the most massive, horrific steroids of inhuman creation.
"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.
Doesn't that sound like Iraq under Bush/Cheney?
Indeed Mr. Olsen, it's from the same playbook, it's just the names that have changed.
Thank you Shaun for bringing this to our attention. It’s disgusting that you are writing about untracked weapons sent to a country zealously killing innocent civilians in Palestine without tracking the shipments. It’s a horrible precedent. The fact that only 69% of the time they were properly tracked. We are complicit then. Can you imagine a hospital having a 69% rate of surgery but not knowing the failure or success rates? Unbelievable.
Shocking ineptitude.
Not with THESE GUYS !!!!!!!!!!
The loss of legitimate free reporting, what there was of it before DJT, is taking a terrible toll. We lost a free press a long time ago with incorporation. If it wasn't for you and all those in substack we would be literally in an information dead zone. That thought makes my skin crawl. I see people in the streets protesting, but I wonder how many are pounding on congressional doors demanding they do more. Congressional outrage these days is equivalent to their 'thoughts and prayers'. America has a habit of doing terrible harm while looking the other way. The karma for that continues to build. I am sick about this complete abandonment of Pentagon accountability but cannot feel worse than I do already.
Amazing how easily the US government can lose track of so many expensive and dangerous weapons that it sent to Israel, but it seems to want to know every minute detail of our lives so they can catch us out and deport us or lock us up in a torture prison. Funny how the big things are so easily missed but not the tiny things to keep the working class in their place.
The Hebrew Bible is the root of the problem. That's why Netanyahu holds Bible study classes. Israeli officials base their genocide of Palestinians on the Hebrew Bible which was written by ancient Jewish clergymen. They wrote it to promote Jewish supremacy and the Jewish state of Israel over all Gentile nations. https://www.deism.com/post/bible-based-jewish-superiority
We will only have change if we speak up. And we need to have those, like Shaun King, who share the facts. But it's up to all of us to act for good over evil.