{"id":402685,"date":"2019-04-08T11:25:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T10:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/turns-out-pentagon-was-bombarded-with-whistleblower-complaint-every-6-minutes-lee-camp-rt-usa-news\/"},"modified":"2019-04-08T11:25:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T10:25:39","slug":"turns-out-pentagon-was-bombarded-with-whistleblower-complaint-every-6-minutes-lee-camp-rt-usa-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/turns-out-pentagon-was-bombarded-with-whistleblower-complaint-every-6-minutes-lee-camp-rt-usa-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Turns out Pentagon was bombarded with \u2018whistleblower complaint every 6 minutes\u2019 \u2013 Lee Camp \u2014 RT USA News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/thumbnail\/5ca9b402fc7e935d748b4618.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        A recent report shows that the Pentagon is pretty much buried with scores of whistleblower complaints. On his show Redacted Tonight, Lee Camp explained why the huge number of people sounding the alarm is not surprising.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Camp opened the show by citing a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/700\/697337.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag noopener noreferrer\">found<\/a> the Pentagon received a whopping 95,613 whistleblower alerts between 2013 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThat averages out to a whistleblower every six minutes of every business day for five straight years \u2013 that waiting room must be insane!\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>As astonishing as that number might seem, the amount of people sounding the alarm within the system is not really surprising, Camp noted \u2013 considering the previous multiple reports of the military losing track of trillions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more-big\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/446868-trillion-pentagon-audit-failed\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"read-more-big__container\"><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__content\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__subtitle\">Also on rt.com<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__title\">The Pentagon failed its audit amid a $21 trillion scandal (yes, trillion) &#8211; Lee Camp <\/span><br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__cover lazyload\" data-bgset=\"&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.12\/xxs\/5c1a5b81dda4c823698b45b5.jpg 280w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.12\/xs\/5c1a5b81dda4c823698b45b6.jpg 320w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.12\/thumbnail\/5c1a5b81dda4c823698b45b4.jpg 460w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.12\/m\/5c1a5b81dda4c823698b45b7.jpg 540w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.12\/l\/5c1a5b81dda4c823698b45b8.jpg 768w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.12\/article\/5c1a5b80dda4c823698b45b3.jpg 980w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.12\/xxl\/5c1a5b81dda4c823698b45b9.jpg 1240w&#10;                        \" data-sizes=\"auto\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In fact, last year\u2019s government audit <a href=\"https:\/\/dod.defense.gov\/News\/Article\/Article\/1412459\/dod-owes-taxpayers-full-accounting-of-assets-comptroller-tells-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag noopener noreferrer\">revealed<\/a> that the Pentagon <em>\u201clost and found\u201d<\/em> 39 Black Hawk helicopters and over 470 buildings within the Air Force that weren\u2019t properly registered as its property, he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>The Pentagon has a standard operating procedure of simply making up numbers to fill their books, which for normal human being is termed \u2018fraud.\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Watch the full episode here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"media__youtube-frame lazyload\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300px\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gLqWHtYgxWk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/455768-lee-camp-pentagon-whistleblowers\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report shows that the Pentagon is pretty much buried with scores of whistleblower complaints. On his show Redacted Tonight, Lee Camp explained why the huge number of people sounding the alarm is not surprising. Camp opened the show by citing a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that found the Pentagon received a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":402686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}