Stockhound-the DTCC opens its books each and every trading day; it's called the SHO list, and CMKX is not and never has been on it.
They also publish an audited annual report, which is available online. You might want to read it some time. On any given day the market value of all fails to deliver for over 9,000 equities is a trivial three billion dollars, hardly the stuff of which conspiracies are made.
There are no stupid questions. But damn, there are a lot of stupid questioners!