The BBC is reporting Iran nuclear: Geneva talks ‘reach deal’. There is no real information on what was agreed to, but something has been signed that will be immediately condemned by the Israeli government and its lobbyists in and out of the US government.

John McCain will no doubt be on one of the Sunday talk shows to complain that we aren’t bombing Iran instead of negotiating with them.

James Rosen at McClatchy confirms something I’ve suspected for a long time: Military spending defies efforts to track it.

Throughout the Rumsfeld reign of error at the Pentagon he made numerous statements to the effect that various complaints were unjustified because he could only work within his budget. In many of those cases which involved improvements to personal and vehicle armor, I knew that the money had been specifically appropriated and the suppliers were just waiting for the word to ramp up production, but the word wasn’t sent. I was constantly blogging about a need to audit the Pentagon’s books, because billions of dollars seemed to have been misplaced.

So they attempted to audit and discovered the bookkeeping is so bad you can’t really do an audit, and this problem goes back twenty years with no progress being made by the military to fix a worthless system. The bottom line is that the military doesn’t really know how much money it has, or how much it spends. They have no real inventory control, even on nuclear and nuclear-related items.

Apparently the latest target date to fix these problems is 2017, after the next Presidential election naturally. There are probably a lot of unemployed people available to inventory all of the stores of equipment, and to actually institute a new, unified bookkeeping system, if the government really wanted to fix this. and it could be fixed a lot sooner than 2017.