Just more example of the congressional underfunding, and lack of oversite after the photo ops for them 'we support the troops' votes in this case, of new bills and policies, of programs and agencies while over funding for their defense industry patrons, decades for the VA and the people represented like that as they ignore the veterans during and returned from the wars cheered on, which happens mostly from the 'lets privatize everything!' tepub ideologies. Creating problems, and corruption, that mushroom and costs much much much more to correct. It's called 'fiscal conservatism', instead of fully funding and actual oversite, their jobs, which saves in the long run in many ways, in this case also the heartbreak for the families of the few who actually serve the flag wavin patriots!!
July 8, 2013 - The Pentagon's effort to account for tens of thousands of Americans missing in action from foreign wars is so inept, mismanaged and wasteful that it risks descending from "dysfunction to total failure," according to an internal study suppressed by military officials.Largely beyond the public spotlight, the decades-old pursuit of bones and other MIA evidence is sluggish, often duplicative and subjected to too little scientific rigor, the report says.
The Associated Press obtained a copy of the internal study after Freedom of Information Act requests for it by others were denied.
The report paints a picture of a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, a military-run group known as JPAC and headed by a two-star general, as woefully inept and even corrupt. The command is digging up too few clues on former battlefields, relying on inaccurate databases and engaging in expensive "boondoggles" in Europe, the study concludes.
In North Korea, the JPAC was snookered into digging up remains between 1996 and 2000 that the North Koreans apparently had taken out of storage and planted in former American fighting positions, the report said. Washington paid the North Koreans hundreds of thousands of dollars to "support" these excavations. read more>>>
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