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Treasury Graft in Detail
[EKO] When DOGE found empty fields in Treasury's payment system, they uncovered more than missing data.

They found a mechanism.
Long, wonderful. Excerpts here, go to the link to read the rest.
Simple things were left blank:

  • Payment categories

  • Payment rationales

  • Basic audit controls

The kind of fields any small business would require. The kind that let you track where money goes. The kind that stop a billion dollars of fraud. Every week.

Here's what Treasury didn't want exposed:

Over $100 billion flowing annually to accounts without Social Security numbers. No temporary ID numbers. No verification. Nothing.

Let that sink in.

$50 billion per YEAR.

A billion dollars every SINGLE week disappearing into accounts that shouldn't exist.

The kind of fraud that would shut down any bank in America.

The kind that would land any business owner in federal prison.

But Treasury had perfected its system:

  • Process payments

  • Ignore controls

  • Keep the machine running

Yesterday, something shifted. A judge's order appeared, ex parte—meaning only one side could speak. No warning. No defense allowed. Just a wall erected between Treasury officials and their own department's data.

When Musk asked Treasury officials how much was "unequivocal and obvious fraud," the answer revealed decades of corruption: HALF

… The system's response was swift.

Coordinated.

Precise.

Nineteen Democratic state attorneys general filed suit. Not about the fraud. Not about the waste. Not about billions vanishing into accounts without SSNs. But about "protecting" the Treasury Department from its own Secretary.

A judge in New York responded with something unprecedented: an ex parte order blocking Treasury officials from accessing their own department's data. No warning. No chance to respond. No opportunity to present evidence. Just a wall between the people elected to fix the system and the system itself.

Think about what that means: The Secretary of the Treasury—effectively the CFO of the United States government—legally barred from seeing how money moves through his own department. The people's appointee blocked from viewing the people's accounts. Young coders mapping the missing controls ordered to stop looking.

The MACHINE (that’s what I’ll be calling the DS from now on) has judges. Has lawyers. Has media. Has entire states moving in coordination.

But here's what makes this time different: The DOGE clock keeps ticking.

$74 billion saved and counting.

Each number representing not just dollars, but holes in the machine.

Gaps in the armor.

Places where light gets in.

… The machine is fighting back.

But this time, it's fighting years and years and years of gathered light. Now activated.

And summer is coming.



Posted by: Mercutio 2025-02-12
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=739984