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I mean we knew it was going to fail the audit. The reason it has failed five in a row is because it has only ever had five. It's a work in progress. The point now is to make sure they actually make progress instead of slow-walking or depending on our apathy to stop caring after the first few times.

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It wasn't that long ago that I was hearing about how audits were impossible at the Pentagon and they would just give up whenever it was attempted. This sounds like progress.

You're just echoing the article:

> The news came as no surprise to Pentagon watchers. After all, the U.S. military has the distinction of being the only U.S. government agency to have never passed a comprehensive audit.

Although your argument that it's supposed to force them to make progress doesn't seem correct:

> But what did raise some eyebrows was the fact that DoD made almost no progress in this year’s bookkeeping: Of the 27 areas investigated, only seven earned a clean bill of financial health, which McCord described as “basically the same picture as last year.”

Yeah, I guess it's a complaint about the headline.

War is needed to test it in production.

It's actually beneficial for them to keep failing so a president isn't set that there is a chance that it could not feel because the Pentagon is in such a situation that the public cannot just boycott or dismantle it

> president

precedent

A manchurian precedent

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