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It's shocking how many billions of spending are completely unaudited. Official gov't auditors have tried for years, but the target agencies stall and stall. You
by tlb 2y ago
It's shocking how many billions of spending are completely unaudited. Official gov't auditors have tried for years, but the target agencies stall and stall. You have to assume there is some malfeasance there.
Doing an audit starting with the treasury department seems like the right first step. Every outflow of money ultimately has to start there. It's the root node of the Sankey diagram. Then you follow the money outwards from there.
- mikeodds 2y ago1 billion sent to the fluffer
- cdme 2y agoI wouldn’t trust a 19 year old to do my taxes let alone audit all of federal spending.
- reustle 2y agoThose are a couple of people within a much larger team.
- cdme 2y agoRanging from 19-24.
- ubercore 2y agoMuch larger? How much larger? I thought it was a pretty small group.
- krainboltgreene 2y agoI wouldn't trust my teenager with a "large" team of people in control of the federal payments system.
- liontwist 2y ago[flagged]
- MisterTea 2y agoBut we trust them with billions in military hardware and defending the nation.
- BobaFloutist 2y agoI mean, not individually.
- llamaimperative 2y agoAfter super intensive training and supported by an ultra-regimented social and technological infrastructure?
- taylodl 2y agoNo we don't. They get small arms. Fighter jets, aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and the like are commanded by much older and experienced people. An M16 is not "billions in military hardware."
- lowercased 2y agoAudits can be done 'read only'. Audits don't actually have to impact the behaviour and operation of an organization either. Stopping all activity because of an 'audit' is ... wrong.
- kdmtctl 2y agoWrite only is not an audit. This is a crisis management style.
- Naklin 2y ago[flagged]
- franktankbank 2y ago> You wouldn't start by looking at a giant list of wire transfers from/to the company's bank accounts Might be the first data you secure though.
- saghm 2y agoIn what way is this "securing" the data? > a top DOGE employee, 25 year old former SpaceX employee Marko Elez, has not only read but write access to BFS servers > One senior IT source can see Mark retrieving “close to a thousand rows of data” but they can’t see the content because the system is “top secret” even to them. No source I have has knowledge of what DOGE is doing with the data they are retrieving
- Naklin 2y agoEvery report on this shows the data has been made much LESS secure now.
- franktankbank 2y agoI was referring to how you'd conduct an audit. I don't mean adding extra security, I mean taking backups so they can't be tampered during the audit.
- Naklin 2y agoThat’s the same thing though. You think the treasury doesn’t have a metric ton of procedures, and laws, on data management, integrity, access, backup and retention? Breaking these protocols by giving unfettered write access to this data to ridiculously inexperienced and ignorant goons exponentially increases the risk of data tampering and corruption… It makes any kind of audit LESS likely to be accurate. But they’re very obviously not doing any kind of credible audit. As mentioned, that’s literally impossible and nonsensical to do this way.
- archagon 2y agoBased on Musk’s tweets, the depth of this “audit” seems to be entirely surface level, e.g. “Lutheran in the name? DELETE.” (Not that they could do any better even if they wanted to given the blitzkrieg nature of the audit, size of the team, and complete lack of expertise.)
- dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 2y agoYou're shocked by how many billions go completely unaudited? okay then...how many billions are completely unaudited?
- llamaimperative 2y agoBigly huge numbers! No one knows how many billions except for me: and it’s many! That’s what people are saying!
- TacticalCoder 2y agoSo you're fine with USAID funding the development of Covid-19 through EcoHealthAlliance (it's been proven beyond the shadow of a doubt) and you're even finer with USAID then financing media (like the BBC and Politico but so many are very likely recipients of these funds) to do the coverup and pretend that it "couldn't have possibly been a lab-leak"? If you're not fine with that, how do we suggest we even fix this? The USAID literally financed the development of a virus that killed tens of millions of people worldwide. And then it greased many wheels to try to make people believe it couldn't possibly have been a lab-leak. Trump just asked an audit of all the US donations that have been made to Ukraine: this looked like one of the biggest operation of money laundering in a long time. Why are you even against trying to fix things?
- lymbo 2y agoCould I get a source of proof for the USAID-EcoHealthAlliance funding and development? I’m googling a lot of variations but I can’t find a good article. Just curious. Thanks.
- cozzyd 2y agoI suspect the vast majority is in the DoD, which, strangely, isn't the target here.
- llamaimperative 2y agoOnly strange if one believes this was about government waste and not an ideological "purification."
- cyanydeez 2y agoOk, let's go hire someone..not...let random billionaires decide what to do
- bigfatkitten 2y agoA random billionaire plus a bunch of high school kids with no demonstrable expertise in finance or accounting.
- cherryteastain 2y agoEasy fix. You have until the end of the FY + 3mo to provide the audit report. If you do not provide it, your funding is cut to 0 for the next FY.