the most plausible explanation I've heard is that the dod office of the inspector general was conducting a huge multi-year audit effort to untangle literally trillions of dollars of unaudited defense spending, and that the computer systems holding the data were located in that part of the building

ofc the fact checkers are out in force giving ten pinocchios to all of the conspiracy theorists who don't have enough common sense to tell the difference between "we don't know where this money is" and "this money is missing," lol

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

You don't need a missile to destroy documents. Auditors routinely get owned by "Documents? What documents? You must be mistaken. Those documents never existed my dude." and "Oops, Bob the intern accidentally shredded those documents. And those documents. And coincidentally every single document that would incriminate us." We're talking about a government agency that has never once passed an audit lol