The Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) fund (click here) - sometimes referred to as war funds - is a separate pot of funding
operated by the Department of Defense and the State Department, in
addition to their "base" budgets (i.e., their regular peacetime
budgets). Originally used to finance the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the
OCO continues to be a source of funding for the Pentagon, with a fraction of the funds going to the State Department.
Since the OCO fund has very little oversight and is not subject to the sequestration cuts that slashed every other part of the budget in 2013, many experts consider it a “slush fund” for the Pentagon. For example, Todd Harrison, senior fellow for defense studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, found that the Pentagon was stashing an estimated extra $20 billion worth of non-war funding in the “operation and maintenance” accounts of its proposed 2014 war budget. Even Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has recently called the OCO "a road to nowhere."...
This just goes to prove how corrupt the Republican Congress is. They don't care about the country, they care about cronies. This is called CHEATING.
Besides cheating it places power in the hands of one man, the President. The entire focus of the Republican Congress is to undermine the legislative process.
These should be viewed as ETHIC VIOLATIONS. There is no way an assault against the legislative process should go without enforcement through ethnics violations.
It is very easy to lie to voters. It allows for Republicans to talk out of both sides of their mouth. "Oh, yeah, the F35 is a waste of money." While the reality is the F35 is still funded at the expense of taxpayers that will never see any benefits militarily. Trillion so far are wasted on this ? jet ?
The OCO Funds allows the USA to hide military activities to voters and citizens.
There needs to be an investigation to these activities!
September 15, 2014
By David Axe
Sept. 8, would add eight F-35 stealth fighters, (click here) 21 new Apache gunship helicopters and a secretive bunker-busting bomb to the military’s arsenal.
Since the OCO fund has very little oversight and is not subject to the sequestration cuts that slashed every other part of the budget in 2013, many experts consider it a “slush fund” for the Pentagon. For example, Todd Harrison, senior fellow for defense studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, found that the Pentagon was stashing an estimated extra $20 billion worth of non-war funding in the “operation and maintenance” accounts of its proposed 2014 war budget. Even Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has recently called the OCO "a road to nowhere."...
This just goes to prove how corrupt the Republican Congress is. They don't care about the country, they care about cronies. This is called CHEATING.
Besides cheating it places power in the hands of one man, the President. The entire focus of the Republican Congress is to undermine the legislative process.These should be viewed as ETHIC VIOLATIONS. There is no way an assault against the legislative process should go without enforcement through ethnics violations.
It is very easy to lie to voters. It allows for Republicans to talk out of both sides of their mouth. "Oh, yeah, the F35 is a waste of money." While the reality is the F35 is still funded at the expense of taxpayers that will never see any benefits militarily. Trillion so far are wasted on this ? jet ?
The OCO Funds allows the USA to hide military activities to voters and citizens.
There needs to be an investigation to these activities!
September 15, 2014
By David Axe
Sept. 8, would add eight F-35 stealth fighters, (click here) 21 new Apache gunship helicopters and a secretive bunker-busting bomb to the military’s arsenal.
Lawmakers
approved the Pentagon’s 2014 budget in December 2013. Nine months
later, the military wants to move around $2 billion from that budget to
pay for things it didn’t originally ask for.
The
budgetary shenanigans reflect the Pentagon’s desperation after years of
automatic “sequestration” spending cuts—and also the confusing ways
military officials try to justify new weapons.
Bureaucrats have proposed to “reprogram” $2 billion from the Pentagon’s 2014 war budget. The war fund—technically, the “Overseas Contingency Operations” request, or OCO—is an extra budget that the military sends to Congress every year in addition to its normal spending proposal....
Pentagon desperation may be valid considering the necessary changes required under NDAA. Regardless, this is occurring without the legislative authority to do so and it is out of sight of the citizens of the USA.
The Bunker Busters may nave gone to Israel. I do know there were some to be sent in 2015. But, otherwise, there is no public recognition of these military machines. The lousy stuff could be anywhere in the world, including Cheney's backyard.
Pentagon desperation may be valid considering the necessary changes required under NDAA. Regardless, this is occurring without the legislative authority to do so and it is out of sight of the citizens of the USA.
The Bunker Busters may nave gone to Israel. I do know there were some to be sent in 2015. But, otherwise, there is no public recognition of these military machines. The lousy stuff could be anywhere in the world, including Cheney's backyard.
