In an interview, Linda Woodford, an employee at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service – the Pentagon's main accounting agency – reveals to Reuters that she spent the last 15 years of her career simply "plugging in" false numbers every month to balance the books;

"A lot of times there were issues of numbers being inaccurate. We didn't have the detail ... for a lot of it."

Woodford's involvement in the fraud doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. The report also reveals that "a single DFAS office in Columbus, Ohio, made at least $1.59 trillion – yes, trillion – in errors,  including $538 billion in plugs, in financial reports for the Air Force in 2009."