It's almost like a fire, or liquidation, sale, isn't it? And, given that Barack Obama is as bent on blanketly disarming the United States as he is arming all our enemies, I would suggest that there's no "almost" about it:
The Pentagon lost track of sensitive equipment from a $750 million program to help U.S. soldiers spot roadside bombs — and some of it wound up for sale on eBay, Craigslist and other websites, according to a Navy intelligence document obtained by The Intercept.
Don't you just love the cavalier ambiguity of that phrase? The Obamagon "lost track" of sensitive equipment from a counter-terrorism weapons program that jihadists, once in possession of it, can reverse-engineer in order to better conceal their roadside IEDs (wherever they may be deployed). As if to say, "WHOOPS! There goes another rubber tree plant...." Oh, well, we'll try to be more careful the next time! No worries! It's not as though they're Islamic and out to kill us all or anything, right?
The missing equipment includes thermal optic imaging and night vision devices that were supplied to U.S. forces to help locate improvised explosive devices, the leading killer of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, as well as related threats. “Since 2009, some of this advanced hardware has been reported as missing and is actively being sold or discussed on the global market on a variety of websites,” says an intelligence brief by the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service and its Multiple Threat Alert Center.
The bomb-detecting equipment was provided as part of a larger program called RCOS/Keyhole, which was funded by the Pentagon’s bomb-fighting agency, known as the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), and administered by the U.S. Navy.
JIEDDO has been heavily criticized over the years for expending large sums of money without attaining clear results. According to a 2012 report by the Government Accountability Office, JIEDDO had spent over $18 billion yet lacked an effective way to oversee its programs.
Kind of like if they required all their pilots to fly blindfolded. And then, whaddaya know, the Navy would start "losing track of" entire squadrons of F/A-18 Hornets, EC-3 Hawkeyes, the Naval version of the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning (if they have any), etc.
If you're browsing around on Ebay one day and you come across an item purporting to solicit bids on a fully-loaded Harrier jump jet, or perhaps even an entire aircraft carrier battle group, now you'll know the story behind its availability - and the bargain basement price tag.
Only caveat might be that the bidding may be limited to Muslim buyers only.
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