One of the Defense Department's largest agencies confirmed Monday that it could not account for more than $800 million that had been earmarked for various construction projects. A spokesperson for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) told Fox News an internal audit found "shortcomings in documentation" related to the projects. The audit found that the DLA had little or no documentation for another $384 million in spending projects. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, a longtime critics of the Pentagon's spending, expressed skepticism that the agency could clean up its bookkeeping mess. "If you can’t follow the money, you aren’t going to be able to do an audit," he told Politico, later adding, "The [Pentagon] feeder systems can’t provide data.

Source: Fox News February 05, 2018 22:27 UTC