You're just echoing the article: > The news came as no surprise to Pentagon watchers. After all, the U.S. military has the distinction of being the only U.S. g

You're just echoing the article: > The news came as no surprise to Pentagon watchers. After all, the U.S. military has the distinction of being the only U.S. government agency to have never passed a comprehensive audit. Although your argument that it's supposed to force them to make progress doesn't seem correct: > But what did raise some eyebrows was the fact that DoD made almost no progress in this year’s bookkeeping: Of the 27 areas investigated, only seven earned a clean bill of financial health, which McCord described as “basically the same picture as last year.”