Mark Skidmore on the Pentagon’s Missing Trillions

The $52.6 billion “black budget” for fiscal 2013, obtained by The Washington Post from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, maps a bureaucratic and operational landscape that has never been subject to public scrutiny. Although the government has annually released its overall level of intelligence spending since 2007, it has not divulged how it uses the…

Addendum to Missing Money—June 2021: An Additional $94 Trillion in DOD Accounting Adjustments Reported in Bloomberg. By Mark Skidmore On January 22, 2020, Bloomberg posted an article written by Anthony Capaccio, “Pentagon Racks Up $35 Trillion in Accounting Changes in One Year” (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-22/pentagon-racks-up-35-trillion-in-accounting-changes-in-one-year). In the article, the author reports that the Department of Defense recorded…

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.” ~ Article I, Section 9, Clause 7, U.S. Constitution September 2017 Report Solari Report: Interview with Dr. Mark…