Audit-ability is essential to accountability is essential to effective government -- in our case, a democracy (well, ok, a republic).<p>Failure to provide for this should be considered outright failure in one&#x27;s job.  Failure to serve a fundamental tenant of our form of government.<p>To the extent it is define as a crime by our laws, it should be fully prosecuted.<p>In the private sector, I&#x27;ve cleaned up far too many ill-defined, ill-documented messes.  Private or public, these things end up being and serving gross dereliction of duty.  I&#x27;ve seen it over and over.