Who counts as a federal reporting entity?
When and how can these entities conceal or remove financial information from their reports?
What information can be removed?
When does something count as confidential, and who makes that determination?
FASAB56 allows federal entities to manipulate data and even omit spending altogether when reporting on the grounds of national security
FASAB 56 also allows departments within government to change their reports in ways that don’t reflect their actual spending, under the guise of the very grey area of how information is classified and how such information is handled with respect to unclassified reports.
FASAB 56 also undermines the reliability of government accounting standards and financial statements to such a degree, that from a public perspective they become worthless.
It also allows the addition of misleading information and information to be omitted on spurious grounds. This lack of transparency is staggering, open to potentially serious abuse and was approved by the Trump administration.
01/20/2017
Donald Trump becomes 45th President of the United States after defeating Hillary Clinton.
03/20/2017
Senator Charles Grassley , says on the Senate floor that the Pentagon’s longstanding failure to conduct a proper audit reflects “twenty-six years of hard-core foot-dragging” on the part of the DOD, where “internal resistance to auditing the books runs deep.”
09/2017
Deadline set in 2009 by Congress for Pentagon to subject itself to full audit
09/30/2017
a DOD OIG report on a U.S. Navy financial statement for FY 2017 suddenly appears in heavily redacted form—not just the numbers it contains, but even its title!
09/04/2018
FBI report on Kavanaugh is sent to Senate Judiciary Committee.
First round of Kavanaugh confirmation hearings begins.
09/27/2018
Ford testimony is added to the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings cnbc.com/2018/09/27/how…
09/30/2018
Deadline DOD gave itself for producing auditable financial statements
10/04/2018
Final Statement 56 is published, with little if any change from the exposure draft.
10/04/2018
it seems that only a few people with high-level security clearances have the authority to determine what is a national security issue, these same people will now be allowed to restate budgets to hide activity. fas.org/sgp/news/2018/…
10/06/2018
Kavanaugh is confirmed as Justice of the Supreme Court by the U.S. Senate nytimes.com/2018/10/06/us/…
10/27/2018
private accounting firms announce they cannot complete DOD 2018 FY audit.
“The firms concluded...that the DoD’s financial records were riddled with so many bookkeeping deficiencies, irregularities, and errors that a reliable audit was simply impossible.” thenation.com/article/archiv…
11/27/2018
DoD has literally been making up numbers in its annual financial reports to Congress—representing trillions of dollars’ worth of seemingly nonexistent transactions—knowing that Congress would rely on those misleading reports when deciding how much money to give the DoD
🧵THREAD
🧐WHO OWNS THE VOTE ? Steele Dossier?
1/09/2020 Top 3 voting Co testify for congress
@ time stamp 1:28:04
"Are you OWNED by any PRIVATE EQUITY COMPANIES? "
Dominion "80%"
Hart "Similarly"
ES&S "76%"
@ 1:28:41
"Do you see why we are concerned?"
0:00"ALL THREE OF THE MAJOR VOTING SYSTEM VENDORS REPRESENTED HERE TODAY ARE PRIVATELY HELD OR ARE PARTIALLY CONTROLLED BY PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS" IT'S IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST FOR CONGRESS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND WHO COULD FINANCIALLY BENEFIT FROM THE ADMINISTRATION OF OUR ELECTIONS. "
All three were majority-owned by private equity companies—
Staple Street Capital (Dominion) ,
Enlightenment Capital (Hart) and
McCarthy Capital (ES&S).
Devin began his career in the mergers & acquisitions group at Lazard in New York and worked part-time at The Carlyle Group during graduate school.
If your following my #SuperThread EYES on Carlyle enlightenment-cap.com/people/
#THREAD#threadstorytime
Calling attention to Misconceptions , some history , and poing out institutions that will become relevant later #threads
Federal Reserve
IRS
Brookings Institution (and other think tanks)
Alfalfa Club
As settled law under John L. Lewis v. United States confirms: “Each Federal Reserve Bank is a separate corporation owned by commercial banks in its region.” wallstreetonparade.com/2020/06/the-fe…
In 1909, Aldrich introduced a constitutional amendment to establish an income tax, although he had declared a similar measure "communistic" a decade earlier en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_W.…
#BlackRock Investment Institute
Dealing with the next downturn:
From unconventional monetary policy to
unprecedented policy coordination #FederalReserve#GreatReset