Biggest Fraud in History? Pentagon Can’t Locate Over Half Its Assets w/ Lee Camp
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 19 January 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Pentagon has “lost track” of more than half of its assets, based on its fifth failed audit in a row. The Pentagon’s assets include troops, weapons, battleships, submarines, buildings, and more, costing trillions of dollars – yet over half are unaccounted for? How does the single biggest and costliest agency get away with this while Congress dismisses free college, improved Medicare and Medicaid, helping low-income families with costs of childcare, and other basic necessities?
Brian is joined by Lee Camp, comedian, journalist, and former host of the TV show "Redacted Tonight." Now he hosts "The Most Censored News" for MintPress and you can check out his podcast "The Lee Camp Show" on Spotify. All of his work is available at LeeCamp.net.
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| 0:00.0 | The single highest funded U.S. agency, that of course would be the Pentagon, has failed its fifth audit. |
| 0:12.5 | Yes, it fails every audit. |
| 0:15.3 | We need a new system. |
| 0:17.5 | We need a new society. |
| 0:19.4 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:23.6 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 0:27.6 | The Welcome to this week's episode of The Real Story on The Socialist program. |
| 0:54.8 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 0:56.8 | Today we'll be talking to Lee Camp. |
| 0:59.1 | Lee is a comedian, a journalist, a former host of the TV show redacted tonight. |
| 1:05.5 | Now he hosts the most censored news for Mint Press, and you can check out his podcast, The Lee Camp Show on Spotify. |
| 1:15.6 | All of his work is available at Leecamp.net. |
| 1:20.4 | Lee Camp, welcome back. |
| 1:22.0 | Thanks for having me, Brian. |
| 1:23.3 | I can't wait to do one of these where we just have nothing left to talk about because it's all been |
| 1:27.0 | fixed. |
| 1:28.0 | Well, okay, so that means we can do another show, Lee. |
| 1:32.1 | And we've done several shows already on this question. |
| 1:35.8 | I mean, when I interviewed you a couple years ago about the fact that I think the Pentagon couldn't find 20, I think it was $21 trillion of its assets. |
| 1:46.8 | Couldn't find them. |
| 1:48.0 | Couldn't locate them. |
| 1:49.1 | Couldn't account for them and failed its audit. |
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