Ebay and Craigslist may have reputations for selling rare and hard-to-find items, but in some cases, Uncle Sam wants those impossible-to-get items to remain that way. In a report released on Thursday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed the results of an investigation that turned up scores of sensitive military items on both sites, from F-14 antennas to body armor.
Although buying and selling the items isn’t explicitly illegal, the report raised questions of where they were coming from and where they would be going. Certain body armor panels, for instance, aren’t sold commercially and were likely stolen from the military, while F-14 fighter jets are only still flown by Iran, indicating that the parts for them may fall into the hands of a hostile government.
