The Solari Report / 2018 Annual Wrap Up / Part One (As of Yet) Underutilized Clause.” 20180123 Special Solari Report article published: “The U.S. Statutes Creating Modern Constitutional Financial Management and Reporting Requirements and the Government’s Failure to Follow Them.” Media 20180314 Comments due on the exposure draft of FASAB Statement 56. law 20180330 Special Solari Report article published: “The History and Organization of the Federal Reserve: The What and Why of the United States’ Most Powerful Banking Organization.” Media 20180500 Dr. Mark Skidmore publishes “Update on the $21 Trillion in Unsupported Adjustments at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Defense” [Solari Report], reporting that over the past several months, he has repeatedly tried to contact the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in an effort to obtain additional information regarding the nature of the unsupportable adjustments at DOD, but the OIG is no longer responding to inquiries. Media, HUD, DoD, enforcement 20180606 FASAB proposes two possible alternatives for disclosure/disclaimer requirements under Standard 56. Law 20180712 FASAB issues a classified exposure draft of the first Statement 56 Interpretation: “Interpretation of Federal Financial Accounting Standards 56: Classified Activities with comments due by August 13, 2018." law 20180712 Dr. Lawrence Kotlikoff and Dr. Mark Skidmore, “Is Our Government Hiding $21 Trillion in Spending?” (Forbes). Media, DoD, HUD 20180721 Comments due on disclosure/disclaimer requirements under FASAB Standard 56. law 20180726 Federation of American Scientists, “Bid to Rectify the ‘Black Budget’ Fails“: A bill in the Senate to remove “pass-through” funds from the Air Force budget and include them in Defense-wide appropriations fails. “In fiscal year 2018, the Air Force pass-through budget amounted to approximately $22.0 billion, or just less than half of the total Air Force procurement budget. The committee believes that the current Air Force pass-through budgeting process provides a misleading picture of the Air Force’s actual investment budget.” law 20180904 First round of Kavanaugh confirmation hearings begins. Event media 20180904 FBI report on Kavanaugh is sent to Senate Judiciary Committee. Event media 20180927 Ford testimony is added to the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. Event media 20180930 Deadline DOD gave itself for producing auditable financial statements. DoD 20181004 Final Statement 56 is published, with little if any change from the exposure draft. Law 20181004 Several months after beginning the promised FY 2018 DOD audit, the government accepts the recommendations of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board: https://fas.org/sgp/news/2018/07/fasab-review.pdf (see page 3 for a summary). The statement allows government officials to misstate and move funds around to hide expenditures if it is deemed necessary for national security purposes, and the rule applies to all agencies, not just the black budget. Here is an excerpt from the report: "This Statement permits modifications that do not affect net results of operations or net position. In addition, this Statement allows a component reporting entity to be excluded from one reporting entity and consolidated into another reporting entity, and the effect of the modification may change the net results of operations and/or net position." From this statement, it seems that only a few people with high-level security clearances have the authority to determine what is a national security issue, and these same people will now be allowed to restate budgets to hide activity. No one but those few people would ever know that DoD 1 9 0