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According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions. We cannot share information from floor to floor in this building because it's stored on dozens of technological systems that are inaccessible or incompatible.

— Donald Rumsfeld Bureaucracy to Battlefield Speech (2001)

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