I had a professor once... ex-airforce guy... He said he got the opportunity to speak candidly with some general or something... That was a question he asked him... His response was interesting... He claimed it was actually cheaper to let the occassional discrepency slide through the cracks than it would be to pay people to audit the budgets and whatnot. Makes sense, especially when he showed us some declassified budgets... 100k pages is not unheard of.
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