Yes, best to not get off topic here with conspiracies. The "missing" $2.3T referred to bad accounting, not an actual disappearance of funds. Add up all the bad contracts with massive cost overruns by defense companies, end of fiscal year "better spend it or lose it in next year's budget", and even line item pork in Congressional Bills that get wasted, and over years it adds up. The pallets of money that disappeared in Iraq....one just needs to see how the military does things to know incompetence and poor checks and balances are involved. Low level officers know that, so much theft is done way below star level. In Afghanistan, the military lost much more cash to corrupt warlords. The agency has much better systems of following the money they hand out, and agency types are also much better at assessing people, so they are not so quick to trust as military. Agency types question everything; military types salute and follow orders. That is why precious few ex-mil, even Special Forces, make good case officers, and also why good case officers make terrible military types. Ex-mil can work in places like Ground Branch in the SAC Mission Center of the agency, but as the guy or gal who goes out alone on an op, with no backup and just his or her wits, ex-mil types are pretty bad. They need much more structure.
