Barney Frank: “My point was, and I must say I am again unreassured that these crack intelligence people who are so terrific cannot keep…”

“My point was, and I must say I am again unreassured that these crack intelligence people who are so terrific cannot keep track of the money. I will say, in fairness to them, I do not think this was lousy accounting, I think this was cleverness on their part, knowing that they can build this up and those guys are going to spend it. But the point I want to make is this: The chairman said, ``You came up with a way to prevent this from happening last year, and what happened? It got worse after you presented it.''”