Obvious Question

If our Washington spymasters really have acquired the superhuman power to Collect Everything®, how come it is that they can never seem to track down all the money that was stolen from us during the financial crisis? I think we can be fairly certain the money wasn't raptured up to heaven:

A Senate subcommittee investigation accused Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse of using elaborate “cloak-and-dagger” methods to hide the accounts of 22,000 wealthy American citizens with a total of up to $12 billion in assets from U.S. authorities so they could avoid paying taxes.

The bipartisan probe also sharply criticized the Justice Department for being lax in using subpoenas and other legal tools to pressure the bank to reveal most of the names of account holders, which have been withheld as part of a long Swiss tradition of bank secrecy.

All that money didn't just materialize in Switzerland out of thin air. Someone had to transfer it into existing accounts, and that means there are electronic records for everything! So the only reasons I can think of why our intrepid intelligence-gatherers haven't found the goodies is because (a) they're only interested in people who terrorize airplanes and subway stations, and not in people who terrorize pension funds, or (b) they're incompetent. If only we could hazard a guess which it could be.

---Baron V