25-08-2016, 06:51 PM
The US has the GAO and the UK has the National Audit Office.
Having had personal experience with the GAO, and one of its investigators, in regard to a black CIA operation in Gulf War 1, I can't say I'm very impressed with them.
I have zero experience with the NAO.
But since all these agencies are funded by government, in the last analysis they'll turn a blind eye if ordered too. This only leaves the head the option to resign if he/she feels strongly about it, or go along with it.
Also, I suppose there is a limit to their security clearance? And I rather suspect that a fair chunk of the 'lost' $6.5 trillion will have a Sensitive Compartmented Information classification level closed to everyone at the GAO.
I'm sure that Congressionally vouchered funds that were later made available to greasy domestic and overseas politicians etc., plus many other similar perfidious payments would be so sensitive that they would simply be lost.
Which, of course, is why they're so interesting...
Having had personal experience with the GAO, and one of its investigators, in regard to a black CIA operation in Gulf War 1, I can't say I'm very impressed with them.
I have zero experience with the NAO.
But since all these agencies are funded by government, in the last analysis they'll turn a blind eye if ordered too. This only leaves the head the option to resign if he/she feels strongly about it, or go along with it.
Also, I suppose there is a limit to their security clearance? And I rather suspect that a fair chunk of the 'lost' $6.5 trillion will have a Sensitive Compartmented Information classification level closed to everyone at the GAO.
I'm sure that Congressionally vouchered funds that were later made available to greasy domestic and overseas politicians etc., plus many other similar perfidious payments would be so sensitive that they would simply be lost.
Which, of course, is why they're so interesting...
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14