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The Pentagon has failed every audit

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If you misplace a twenty-dollar bill, you're careless. If you misplace three trillion dollars in assets, you're the US Department of Defense. The Pentagon has notoriously failed every single financial audit it has ever undergone, completely unable to account for vast swaths of its sprawling budget. Apparently, the 'black budget' is just an excel spreadsheet missing formulas.

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