Comments by "Daniel Bradford" (@Falconlibrary) on "'If You Filibuster, I Will Interrupt You': Nancy Mace Delivers Warning To DOD Officials" video.

I worked for DoD auditing compliance from our contractors, trying to ensure that the taxpayers got what they paid for. A contractor in a certain Southern state billed the US government for completed work, when in fact it never did ANY work. So I refused to authorize payment. My supervisor got a call later that day from a furious congressman in that contractor's district, demanding to know why we weren't going to pay. We stood our ground. Skip forward to the following week, and an assistant secretary of defense overruled us and authorized payment even though we couldn't certify any work done nor goods received. That happened a lot whenever we audited contractors; a member of Congress would intervene and get us overruled. Mechanisms are in place to keep folks honest, but Congress subverts them. We need a truly independent system that can't be circumvented by interfering politicians, but Congress doesn't want that. We, the people, need to demand better work from our Congress. My story? It's from 1986. So I won't hold my breath waiting on reform.
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@Cactii101 Lying is a bad habit
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@man4290 That's the size of it, yeah.
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