{"id":71752,"date":"2017-08-07T06:42:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T13:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/pentagon-tightens-rules-after-fake-cops-buy-1-2m-in-weapons"},"modified":"2017-08-07T06:42:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T13:42:23","slug":"pentagon-tightens-rules-after-fake-cops-buy-1-2m-in-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/pentagon-tightens-rules-after-fake-cops-buy-1-2m-in-weapons","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Tightens Rules After Fake Cops Buy $1.2M in Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pentagon-tightens-rules-after-fake-cops-buy-1-2m-in-weapons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A sting operation run by the Government Accountability Office revealed a number of loopholes that bad actors could use to buy excess military arms and equipment through the 1033 program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When you realize you\u2019ve somehow sold $1<\/strong>.2 million worth of controlled military equipment to a law enforcement agency that doesn\u2019t exist, you\u2019re likely to jumpstart efforts to reform that program.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what happened when the Defense Logistics Agency learned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/mobile\/products\/GAO-17-532\">a sting operation run by the Government Accountability Office<\/a> had exploited vulnerabilities in the Pentagon\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dla.mil\/DispositionServices\/Offers\/Reutilization\/LawEnforcement\/ProgramFAQs.aspx\">1033 program<\/a>, which sells local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies excess military equipment.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/politics\/2017\/07\/pentagon-tightens-sales-program-after-fake-cops-buy-12m-weapons\/139798\/?oref=DefenseOneFB&utm_content=buffer4a557&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/politics\/2017\/07\/pentagon-tightens...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sting operation run by the Government Accountability Office revealed a number of loopholes that bad actors could use to buy excess military arms and equipment through the 1033 program. When you realize you\u2019ve somehow sold $1.2 million worth of controlled military equipment to a law enforcement agency that doesn\u2019t exist, you\u2019re likely to jumpstart [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1493,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law-enforcement","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}