Thread: Missing Trillions

This is an old story, but it remains an unsolved mystery, so I'm posting it here for your consideration. This can be verified in a number of MSM articles, such as this one: The War On Waste - CBS News

Here's the deal: On September 10, 2001 Donald Rumsfeld announced that up to $2.3 trillion was missing from the Pentagon budget. To put this astronomical sum into perspective, it is almost a quarter of the yearly US GDP (roughly $10 trillion). People complain about the amount of money being spent on the war in Iraq, but that has so far totalled a comparatively paltry $352 billion. So as you can see, this would have been the scandal of the year were it not for certain events the following day.

The Comptroller of the Pentagon when this was announced was Dov Zakheim, an interesting individual who was a member of the Project for a New American Century. He was appointed Comptroller in May of 2001.

It has been speculated that we may never know where the missing trillions went, because many of the records are said to have been destroyed on 9/11, having been stored in the section of the Pentagon which was hit by Flight 77, with backups in the DoD offices at WTC7, which collapsed towards 5:30 that afternoon. I can't confirm any of these last rumors, but the situation in general is quite interesting to me and I'm surprised that there's never been any real investigation of it. I remember Rep. Cynthia McKinney grilling Rumsfeld about it on C-SPAN, but as far as I'm aware, nothing more came of it. Thoughts?

Originally Posted by operator kos

This is an old story, but it remains an unsolved mystery, so I'm posting it here for your consideration. This can be verified in a number of MSM articles, such as this one: The War On Waste - CBS News

war is big business, thats what we're all trying to tell these bushist fanatics, they will have to help fit the bill in the end no matter how much they kiss up to his administration