DOJ and Pentagon,☻ Checkmate!
DOJ and Pentagon, ☻Checkmate!
Who’s really playing dirty? Offense ‘Dirty Crypto’ or Defense ‘Clean Audits.’
Justice crusaders don’t look too happy. Lisa, sure you baited and caught crypto big fish?
Real Big Fish get away again! Intelligence not the problem. Think! Those you hunt take cover in your ‘laws.’ Recall what I pointed out in March about King & Spalding?
“The law firm has taken an increased interest in foreign state affairs, particularly those of Saudi Arabia, as well as the new niche market of Chinese groups being badgered in the US by the SEC.”
DOJ, I remind you, you’re under oath to “tell the truth and nothing but the truth.”
On CYBER and CRYPTO, did you fail to read my intelligence briefings? “Hunt for Cyber Big Fish→☻Run, Ruski Run!” posted five days after “Crypto ‘Summer of Sam’ and Revenge On the SVB Geeks.”
CFTC admits Prevention is non-existent. Why? Easy, government cannot operate 24/7. You see, in the ‘cloud,’ it’s not simply a numbers game but the speed of what we can do!
Crime squad of circus clowns took the stage. DOJ charges fee to ‘regulate’ operations AND Treasury cleans up the mess. But for Crypto and Wall Street, the show must go on!
Naïve to point to ‘corporate crime and national security’ this late in the game. That ship has long sailed. But since you brought it up Lisa, let’s talk Pentagon’s failure in ‘clean audits’ not just Binance ‘failure to register.”
DOJ, like Homeland Security, we can count on you to ‘catch and release.’ As the Kremlin says, “Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.”
Pentagon, Watching Your Spidey Moves!
Pentagon, the Auditors know your Money Goes Where Money Goes© routine. Or, as Defense likes to say ‘It’s a known unknown.’
If anyone knows the importance of ‘passing audits’ it’s the Financial Services Industry. Ask Morgan, Goldman and Sachs!
But in the case of the Pentagon, sufficient to be audited but NOT necessary to pass. So why do it? “Required by law, the annual audit assesses the record-keeping processes for the Pentagon’s weapons systems, military personnel and property around the world.”
Yet, U.S. aircraft manufacturers are reviewed by regulators around the world before planes are certified.
Boeing 737 Max is said to have the “Joint Operations Evaluation Board (JOEB) review of proposed training for flight crews… [and] include regulators from Canada, Europe, and Brazil.”
Of course, one can’t compare the air craft business of air travel and risk to people’s lives to business of warfare. Or can’t we? Boeing, recall two MAX crashes!
MAX really coming back? Time will tell. FAA says, “Safety will dictate the certification timeline” for the MAX 10.” Safety really the only factor? FAA auditors, check their ‘books’?
Pentagon, shame that a Facilitator or Accelerator of the business of consumer products and services, as ‘supply chain and logistics,” appears to not do ‘accounting.’ Heard of ‘Plug and Play Tech Center’?Just think how much you could ‘plug and play’ with an ‘AWESOM-O.’
Oh, is that where all your ‘slush fund’ money went these past six years – trying to reprogram a ‘start up supercomputer’ as a weapon? Guess South Park got it right.
Mike McCord, Defense Department’s chief financial officer, your numbers just don’t add up. My God man, Pentagon is going on seven years straight without reaching Level 1?
Perhaps it’s bad luck and you need a ‘lucky building!” Have you forgotten plane crashed on your lawn on 9/11? Time to move? Ask Saeed Amidi. Start-ups operating in his building are said to be pretty lucky.
Mike, Security of US was not mentioned. Perhaps a PRISM contractor, Microsoft, is working on it. And now that the company has invested billions in AI, their ‘supercomputer’ is sure to spit out a scripted plan.
Microsoft, did you also plan for preemptive strikes at US satellites? Watchful eyes were right to not mistake North Korea’s apparent cease and desist with incapability. Nor confuse one dynasty with another.
Maybe Elon’s Starlink can serve as backup. But imagine billions of users trying to access their Chatty app. Billions invested in OpenAI converted to a ClosedAI account. FTX, sound familiar?
US Security is sure to test AI or is it the other way around? Appears the only security Pentagon is concerned with is that of other countries.
Defense says it’s got people and arsenal around the globe. ‘Our efforts to track coordinate and quickly deliver security systems to our allies and partners…” Mike, you’re quick to deliver on surveillance but not account for it in your audits? Hmm…
McCord, how much you getting paid for delivering these systems? Still, don’t buy your “Fiscal readiness accelerates mission readiness.” Be serious. If this were the case, Ukraine-Russia conflict would have been over before it started and Israel October 7th would not have happened!
May explain as you’re quoted saying by The Intercept, ‘progress sort of beneath the surface.’ How deep. Tunnel deep?
Ukraine, Middle East, Africa, it looks like the long business of war pays. Mike, Weapons industry paying you Pen boys commission? So where’s the cash going that you can’t deliver ‘clean audits’?
Damn Shame! As Tech is beholden to shareholders, you aren’t beholden to the public. Yet, unlike Tech, nature of your business also requires your operations function with LEGACY systems. And I’m not talking accounting.
But don’t forget the other ‘hidden figures’ – SPIES. State and non-State actors know full well of that which former CIA Chief of Disguises Jonna Mendez speaks, “world needs spies more than ever.” Difference between distraction and MISDIRECTION? Unlike CIA, the FBI is slow to identify.
Problem is, as Mendez pointed out on BBCs HARDtalk, we are “restraint by our own rules.” So who can circumvent these rules?
NSA restrictions “are policy-based, not technically based, and can change at any time.” Just ask Snowden. Pentagon, wait to you hear this! Their “audits are cursory, incomplete, and easily fooled by fake justifications.” Sound familiar?
Also, failed audits were not reported to be a problem back in 2001 and yet 9/11 happened.
Mike, let’s see it for what it is. Systems specifically designed to need constant oversight or as you call it ‘progress.’ “We measure progress across five areas: Workforce Modernization, Business Operations, Quality Decision-Making, Reliable Networks and Enhanced Public Confidence.”
People who pay to keep you in business would say progress is measured by keeping them SAFE!
You see Mike, by Failing the first four areas, (public is unable to qualify, falls under ‘Classified’) you have Failed the fifth and most IMPORTANT area – ‘Enhanced Public Confidence.’
Pentagon, public may not know or figured out the paradox of legacy – advanced tech. No, AI is not the answer. Need to use the ‘old school’ shit to secure against penetration. But it’s a great gimmick to sell the public on ‘security.’
SECURITY? Think, if a resident of one state can easily obtain a weapon from another state, how hard can it be to access a game device?
Ready to ‘plug and play’? China, Russia and Middle East, unable to purchase ‘Google Play?’ Bet you’re glad India, like Switzerland, is user friendly. South Americans unable to purchase ‘Google Play’ could just ask the big guy, Brazil.
U.S., it’s all about keeping that ‘prized jewel’ in your back pocket. Well, a lot has happened since I published, “‘Affair in Taiwan’ In the Year of the Rasky Rabbit!” Keep on alert to witness entrance of a Dragon!
Mike, I remind you. →Agencies have long contracted Big Tech.
Yep, that’s progress for you!
Hey, if ya like games, heard the Joker’s riddle? “PRISM, Riddle Me This…”