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.

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 ...

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