A friend of mine who once held a deputy cabinet position in the Clinton administration tried to do exactly this many years ago, except it was focused on State and Local government because it's impossible to do this with the Federal budget (Black budget, SAPs, etc).
The software would crawl city, state and county records and show the end user exactly how their local tax dollars were being spent. Total accountability down to a very granular level.
The FBI raided their development studio, took every line of code and she spent the next 6 years in court and around 5 million dollars in the process. She "won" in that she was found innocent and did no jail time.
The software was never returned, nor was her 5 million dollars in legal fees. This occurred in the late 1990's.
A friend of mine who once held a deputy cabinet position in the Clinton administration tried to do exactly this many years ago, except it was focused on State and Local government because it's impossible to do this with the Federal budget (Black budget, SAPs, etc).
The software would crawl city, state and county records and show the end user exactly how their local tax dollars were being spent. Total accountability down to a very granular level.
The FBI raided their development studio, took every line of code and she spent the next 6 years in court and around 5 million dollars in the process. She "won" in that she was found innocent and did no jail time.
The software was never returned, nor was her 5 million dollars in legal fees. This occurred in the late 1990's.
Accountability is illegal in this country.
That sounds worth writing a book about.
And the software should be recreated and made open source.