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Until the DoD can account for the 2 trillion dollars they can't account for this audit, I have 0 interest in entertaining the obstruction of these officials.
That's American taxpayer money and we don't even get "classified aerospace research" as a line item
They can account for it, but the government can't just make all of their defense spending public knowledge.
One of the things the UAP investigations has found is that no, they cannot account for it. Even at the highest levels of clearance, some things are buried beneath mountains of different security designations, and it is at least as likely (and probably much more so) that there is embezzlement happening there than there is alien craft, etc.
some things are buried beneath mountains of different security designations
You say this but then claim it’s embezzlement.
It’s much more likely that the Pentagon keeps this info guarded so it doesn’t end up in a bathroom in Mar-a-Lago.
The Pentagon does not have the authority to withhold information from properly-vetted members of Congress - they have been denying access through various loopholes to anyone.
In fact, one of the things discovered this year is that several major defense contractors have had ongoing "projects" for decades in which each part of the project is so compartmentalized that, quite simply, no one can even begin to suggest what the project is actually doing. These are not uncommon right now in the more confidential areas of our government, but the strange thing is the utter impermeability of them.
There are significant amounts of Senators and House members, of both sides, who suspect an embezzlement operation basically funneling cash chasing projects that will never materialize as anything
The more you dig into this the crazier it gets. I'm not even talking about the actual UAPs, just potentially of billions of embezzled funds with nothing to show for it and nothing that will ever come of it
I believe citizens absolutely have a right to know if this kind of theft is happening.
The more you dig into it after a short few minutes you realize you don't know what they say in closed sessions.
They still don't account for it, they just get free money from US tax payers. The DoD is getting free hand outs.
They don't publicly account for it. That's different than not accounting for it at all.
I'm 100% in favor of funneling much of the defense budget into social programs like universal healthcare and free college, but I also know that it's silly to expect the Pentagon and DoD to release spending details on top secret defense projects.
They don't even account for it within the government. They have failed their 6th consecutive audit. The issue isn't that the public doesn't know where the funds are going, it's that not even Congress knows how the money is being used.
Congress can’t be trusted anymore than Trump when it comes to national security secrets.
Are you suggesting that the DoD should operate with no oversight and be allowed to fail their audits every year? I understand a breakdown in trust with politicians, but there needs to be some accountability.