"Most Transparent Administration in History" stops publishing Arms report

[Pavel Mosko]

WASHINGTON, DC- From the “most transparent administration in American history,” we find one item that has largely been buried by the mainstream media.

This week, the State Department announced that the World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers report, which has been published for over 50 years, will no longer be produced. As usual, that provision was buried deep inside the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2022 under Section 5114(b)(4).

Under that federal law, 22 U.S.C. 2593b, it required:



"Most transparent administration in history" stops publishing military expenditures, arms transfers report

 

[Halbhh]

Ah, Congress changed the law (as you showed in your quote). So...it's not up the the President then. Interesting.

 

[Desk trauma]

Ah, Congress changed the law (as you showed in your quote). So...it's not up the the President then. Interesting.

Just because it’s not his fault doesn’t mean he can’t be blamed for it.

 

[Halbhh]

Just because it’s not his fault doesn’t mean he can’t be blamed for it.

That's certainly true. But while some blame Biden for anything and everything, not all do...some are more interested in precision and detail and take up new information.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Ah, Congress changed the law (as you showed in your quote). So...it's not up the the President then. Interesting.

Facts mean nothing to the people trying to instigate civil war.

 

[Arcangl86]

Ah, Congress changed the law (as you showed in your quote). So...it's not up the the President then. Interesting.

I mean there is nothing saying that they couldn't produce it if they wanted to. But it's a very data heavy report that I imagine most people have never heard of. The State Department is small to begin with, and the personal tied up putting out this report could be doing other things.

 

[Halbhh]

I mean there is nothing saying that they couldn't produce it if they wanted to. But it's a very data heavy report that I imagine most people have never heard of. The State Department is small to begin with, and the personal tied up putting out this report could be doing other things.

Perhaps there is a temporary need to obscure certain expenditures in far eastern Europe...just total speculation.

 

[Arcangl86]

Perhaps there is a temporary need to obscure certain expenditures in far eastern Europe...just total speculation.

The report isn't that granular. It shows total amounts of import and exports of weapons, but not where those weapons are coming and going from. It also doesn't distinguish between government and private action. So the whole premise of the article that this is some kind of accountability measure that the Biden admin is trying to get around is jiggery pokery.

 

[Ana the Ist]

Facts mean nothing to the people trying to instigate civil war.

Another classic sarcastic post.