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My buddy Matt brought this to my attention, something called SFFAS-56, and this rabbit

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hole is wild. First off, SFFAS-56 stands for the Statement of Federal Financial Accounting

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Standards 56, and what it does is enable government agencies engaged in national security

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or intelligence-related activities to withhold, modify, or misrepresent financial information

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in publicly available federal financial statements. This includes not only keeping expenditures

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secret, but also potentially altering reported financial data to maintain classified program

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secrecy. In other words, these guys are keeping two sets of books, which is why none of the numbers

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coming out of the Pentagon ever make any sense. For example, in 2015, the Office of the Inspector

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General found that the Army, which had a budget of $122 billion that year, had $6.5 trillion

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in year-end adjustments that they could, quote, not adequately support. Once again, budget

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of $122 million, $6.5 trillion in adjustments. Makes no sense. There's also other weird fraud

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that's been reported in the past, this one involving U.S. Air Force Intelligence and the

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NSA. They were hiding their activities and contracts within the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Once again, makes no sense. On September 10, 2001, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

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made a speech calling out the federal bureaucracy. He said, quote, according to some estimates,

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we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions. Well, we all remembered what happened the next day,

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and let's just say it was a well-timed coincidence to make us forget about this whole issue for a while.

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Until now, literally today. It kind of gets me thinking, I think we're probably due for another

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Black Swan event. And by the way, if you're thinking to yourself, why haven't I heard of

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this crazy story before? Well, it's because the news literally never reported on it, except for

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this one article. This is the only article that I could find on this topic from Rolling Stone

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Magazine in 2019 by the great Matt Taibbi. So, shout out to Matt. Also, totally kidding about the

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Black Swan event. They would never do something like that.