Reply #2: I'm not sure I see the point [View All]

[Ohio Joe]

Waste at the pentagon did not start on 9/10, was not even first talked about then. My youngest brother was an auditor for the dod from 86-97, they had a crap load of them and they still were not enough. His (my brother personally) biggest single find was for John Deere, getting away with over 45 million on one contract (he spent three months on the audit). The government settled with them for 5 million returned and a promise not to do it again. There are so many contracts, and for the government to hire auditors to go through every one and hire lawyers to prosecute every case of fraud, it would cost more then they get ripped off for. Government waste is nothing new, not then, not before, not now, don't take my word for it, go look.

What do you think this report suggests? Even looking through the eyes of M/LIHOP, I don't see what an announcement on a government crack down on waste suggests for 9/11. Why do it the day before? Why do it at all?