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Article: Sensitive military items mistakenly on sale to public The GAO found that 1,400 items were erroneously sold to the public in September 2006.
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- Dayton Daily News
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- August 7, 2007
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The U.S. Department of Defense still violates its own policy by
allowing sensitive military property to be sold to the public as
surplus, including military aircraft parts sold in 2006 and early
this year, federal auditors said in their latest report on the
problem.
The department has made progress in reducing the scope of this
problem since the Government Accountability Office first called
attention to it in 2005 and revisited it each year since then, the
GAO said in its newest report, released late last week. Congress
asked the GAO to investigate and provide the update.
The Defense Department annually sells millions of dollars worth of
excess property to the public through a Web site run ...