61 The Real Game of Missing Money Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) issued its Statement 56 with adoption by the GAO and OMB—essentially authorizing secret books with the approval of both the Trump administration in the White House and the Republican and Democratic leadership in the House and Senate. In a nutshell, Statement 56, in combination with other classification and black bud- get laws, gives government agencies and private corporations the ability to make their financial information secret, resulting in financial statements that are misleading, provided that they do so based on an argument that the information they are leaving out or doctoring is related to a na- tional security concern. DOD exercised the use of FASAB 56 before finalizing the audit process. What that meant is that the financial report DOD published at the completion of its non-audit was essentially meaningless. No one noticed the adoption of FASAB 56 on October 4, 2018 to end federal financial report- ing—essentially shredding the Constitution. Two days earlier, Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist for the Washington Post and former general manager and editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel, was assassinated at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. In addition, Congress was in the middle of the Kavanaugh nomination hearings and related allegations over the sexual practices of teenagers. Whether murder or sex, the shriek-o-meter made sure the most important story of the year was not mentioned or noticed, let alone understood. Is it possible that one of the reasons for such noisy events was to slip through FASAB 56 with- out comment? With the Bush faction and the neocons working their way into the Department of Justice, the courts, and the nuts and bolts mechanisms of the deep state, their mastery of the machinery was evident. How many wars can be started by funneling money under the umbrella of FASAB 56 to foreign militaries and mercenaries? Now that we have spent 18 years and $5.9 trillion on war in the Middle East, is the seven-countries plan back in play? Wesley Clark discussing seven-country plan – https://www.youtube.com/embed/9RC1Mepk_Sw Related Resources: Solari Report: · 2017 Annual Wrap Up: Does Your Pension Fund Have a Deep State Drain? see The State of Our Pension Funds https://pension.solari.com/pension-fund-stats/ · The Missing Money – $21 Trillion in Undocumentable Adjustments and Counting with Dr. Mark Skidmore https://home.solari.com/the-missing-money-19-trillion-in-undocumentable-adjust- ments-and-counting-with-dr-mark-skidmore/ · The Missing Money – How Would You Write the Movie? With Rob Kirby https://home.solari.com/the-missing-money-how-would-you-write-the-movie-with-rob- kirby/ Articles: · FASAB Statement 56 – Understanding New Government Financial Accounting Loopholes https://hudmissingmoney.solari.com/fasab-statement-56-understanding-new-govern- ment-financial-accounting-loopholes/