That's true, and the timing of 911 being the day after the Secretary of Defense pledged a full overhaul of the Pentagon budget in order to start tracking that money more accurately has never sat well with me. I remember watching that news conference with a sense of hope and then waking up the next morning to a sense of dread. 

 Yep. And then years later FASAB 56 essentially removed the requirement of being able to account for things when.....conducting "accounting". Clown world for sure.