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The inversion

Institutions are paid to solve problems. They earn more when the problems continue. — Download · Read

The seven stages

The few who gain organize and the many who pay do not. Regulators, auditors and the press end up funded by the parties they cover. — Download · Read

Organizations drift toward the interests of whoever runs them. — Download · Read

People inside an arrangement believe what the arrangement pays them to believe. — Download · Read

Each exception becomes routine, and the measure replaces the work it was meant to track. — Download · Read

What a person says depends on what happened to the last person who said it. — Download · Read

Members, contracts and habits make change expensive, and institutions copy each other, so no coordination is needed. — Download · Read

A scandal opens a window, the reform creates a body, attention moves on and the stake remains. — Download · Read

What the record shows across terms and findings

Eight straight years of a disclaimer of opinion on the Pentagon's books. Three presidential terms. Two parties. — Download · Read

Congress created the drug user-fee program in 1992 and renewed it six times. Presidents of both parties signed all seven laws. — Download · Read

The 9/11 Commission reported four kinds of failures on 22 July 2004. Congress created the Director of National Intelligence 148 days later. — Download · Read

Stated purpose, operating record

Advertising supplied 43 percent of Nexstar's revenue and 58.5 percent of Fox's Television segment revenue. — Download · Read

Industry user fees paid for 77 percent of the FDA's prescription drug review program in fiscal year 2024. — Download · Read

The Defense Department received a disclaimer of opinion on its financial statements in each of fiscal years 2018 through 2025. — Download · Read

Firms lobbying for the 2004 repatriation provision returned more than $220 for every $1 spent. — Download · Read

Of the 451 GRAS notices FDA received from 1997 to 2012, each was decided by the manufacturer's employee, a consultant it chose, or a panel it or its consultant chose. — Download · Read

Senate Finance staff found no Form 990 for six media ministries or their related organizations, with very limited exception. — Download · Read

What was said, and what the record shows

Still, the abuses were not just the failure of some individuals to follow known standards, and they are more than the failure of a few leaders to enforce proper discipline. There is both institutional and personal responsibility… — Download · Read

There was a disinclination among the Community Bank's senior leadership, regardless of the scope of improper behavior or the number of terminated employees, to see the problem as systemic. — Download · Read

The idea that Clive Goodman was a "rogue reporter" acting alone is also directly contradicted by the Judge who presided at the Goodman and Mulcaire trial. — Download · Read

This was an active effort to make SIGINT fit the claim of what happened during the evening of 4 August in the Gulf of Tonkin. — Download · Read

the Church and Ensign Peak created thirteen limited liability corporations (“LLCs”), including twelve similar LLCs (the “Clone LLCs”) with addresses located throughout the U.S., for the sole purpose of filing Forms 13F and… — Download · Read