Excessive government paperwork–meta edition

An earlier post described the sclerotic impact of excessive regulatory documentation requirements on real-estate development projects. it turns out that the private sector isn’t the only victim of this tendency:

• The Pentagon got concerned that it might be suffering from hyper-cephalization–too many studies and reports on every topic.
• The Pentagon commissioned a meta-study to estimate the costs of all the studies and reports.
• The Government Accounting Office performed a meta-meta-study saying that the meta-study wasn’t performed correctly according to existing rules and standards.

I think we all know what the logical response to the GAO meta-meta-study is…

H/t Instapundit.

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