Accountability?

The Homeland Security Department spends $534 million every year to maintain its enormous fleet of 56,000 vehicles across the globe. But a big part of this sum, between $35 and $49 million in fiscal year 2012, came from underused vehicles. This comes from a new Inspectors General report. Underused vehicles are ones driven less than 12,000 miles annually. President Obama, back in 2011, issued a memo directing federal agencies to reduce their fleet sizes and requiring them to explain the need for keeping underused vehicles. However in Homeland Security's case, the IG found no justification and a lack of any systems to ensure that the agency maintains an appropriate number of vehicles as cost effectively as possible.