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Only NBC picked up on a Government Accountability Office expose of the disorganized way firearms were distributed by the Pentagon to local security forces in Iraq in 2004. The GAO reported that 110,000 AK-47 assault rifles and 80,000 pistols are unaccounted for. The general who was in "such a rush" at the time was David Petraeus, who has since been promoted to command of the entire military occupation of Iraq. Jim Miklaszewski speculated that some of the arms he handed out back then "are now being turned on Americans."
On a smaller scale, CBS had Sharyl Attkisson file an Eye on Your Money investigation into poor inventory management at the Centers for Disease Control. Among the $22m worth of scientific equipment that has gone missing from the CDC are DNA sequencers, centrifuges, a spectrometer, high-end microscopes, computers--and a John Deere tractor and backhoe.
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