> I can't imagine that we're doing our federal accounting in the 21st Century on paper that's stored only in one central location. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, nor do I even remotely believe the idea that there's some sort of cover-up. But I will say one should _never_ assume the federal government doesn't do almost everything in the most backward, ancient way possible. Certainly they have tons of meetings, task-forces and plans to update things. Yet mostly they just flounder and keep on using ancient technology... like paper.