Accountability is the foundation of our freedom.
You can not have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, unless elected and appointed officials are accountable to the people. The ideal underpinning our Constitution may be OK for high school civics texts, but the war against Serbia has shown that classical accountability is rapidly becoming an anachronistic curiosity as the Twentieth Century stumbles to a close. The arrogance of the representatives of the people is not limited to questions of war and peace, or the de-facto establishment of great power protectorates, however. They treat the people's money with equal contempt. Simply stated, the Defense Department can not, and does not want to, satisfy the elementary requirements of the Accountability Clause of the Constitution and the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, notwithstanding the fact that every member of the Defense Department has taken a sacred oath to uphold the Constitution without reservation.