The kind of justifications we read in the article is how things got to the point they are now. Just last year, the DoD failed yet another audit: https://thehil

The kind of justifications we read in the article is how things got to the point they are now. Just last year, the DoD failed yet another audit: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3740921-defense-department-fails-another-audit-but-makes-progress/ https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3740921-defense-departmen... "After 1,600 auditors combed through DOD’s $3.5 trillion in assets and $3.7 trillion in liabilities, officials found that the department couldn’t account for about 61 percent of its assets, Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord told reporters on Tuesday." So, what a military establishment tool might present as the exigencies of dealing with federal accounting is actually a wedge of Swiss cheese with holes so large, that I shudder to think what those military-cum-intelligence-industrial-complex types have snuck in through them.