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swordtail
Anarchist Prime
Thu Jan 17 09:27:43

January 16, 2019 3:18PM ET

Has the Government Legalized Secret Defense Spending?

By
Matt Taibbi

October 4th, 2018, was a busy news day. The fight over Brett Kavanuagh’s Supreme Court nomination dominated the cycle. The Trump White House received a supplemental FBI report it said cleared its would-be nominee of wrongdoing. Retired Justice John Paul Stevens meanwhile said Kavanaugh was compromised enough that he was “unable to sit as a judge.”

#NationalTacoDay trended on Twitter. Chris Evans told the world production wrapped on Avengers 4.

The only thing that did not make the news was an announcement by a little-known government body called the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board — FASAB — that essentially legalized secret national security spending. The new guidance, “SFFAS 56 – CLASSIFIED ACTIVITIES” permits government agencies to “modify” public financial statements and move expenditures from one line item to another. It also expressly allows federal agencies to refrain from telling taxpayers if and when public financial statements have been altered.

To Michigan State professor Mark Skidmore, who’s been studying discrepancies in defense expenditures for years, the new ruling ­— and the lack of public response to it — was a shock.

“From this point forward,” he says, “the federal government will keep two sets of books, one modified book for the public and one true book that is hidden.”

http://www...et-government-spending-779959/
Paramount
Member
Thu Jan 17 11:42:31
“From this point forward,” he says, “the federal government will keep two sets of books, one modified book for the public and one true book that is hidden.”


I told you. It’s a mafia regime. This makes it easier for them to steal money, yes?
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