Department of Defense - Transfer and Use of Defense Emergency Response Funds

Abstract

On April 21, 2004, the Committee on Armed Services of the United States House of Representatives conducted a public hearing on Iraqs transition to sovereignty.6 During the hearing, committee members asked one of the witnesses, then Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, about a public report that $750 million was spent for the conflict in Iraq before Congress had passed a war powers resolution7and that the $750 million had been drawn from various accounts without proper communication with Congress. The Deputy Secretary acknowledged that in considering what tasks to fund from appropriations for the response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, DOD initially considered some tasks that could be viewed as specifically for Iraq before enactment of the Iraq resolution.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 07, 2005
Accession Number
AD1153253

Entities

People

  • Anthony H. Gamboa

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Emergency Response
  • Federal Budgets
  • Financial Management
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • House Of Representatives
  • Law
  • Military Operations
  • Military Personnel
  • National Security
  • Procurement
  • Security
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting
  • Strategic Security Studies