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We Are Change NEPA activists Anthony Antonello and Danny Panzella wait at CPAC to ask Donald Rumsfeld if he ever found that $2.3 Trillion that he said was unaccounted for at a press conference the day before 9/11. To his credit, Rumsfeld responds, though with a dubious answer. The former Secretary of Defense explains that the $2.3 Trillion was never truly lost, but rather untracked in a complex accountability system.
So it's not missing after all. Not missing = not stolen.
We Are Change NEPA activists Anthony Antonello and Danny Panzella wait at CPAC to ask Donald Rumsfeld if he ever found that $2.3 Trillion that he said was unaccounted for at a press conference the day before 9/11. To his credit, Rumsfeld responds, though with a dubious answer. The former Secretary of Defense explains that the $2.3 Trillion was never truly lost, but rather untracked in a complex accountability system.
how is rummy lying ( I cant stand rummy, but you are going off the deep end with this)
Pentagon's finances in disarray
By JOHN M. DONNELLY The Associated Press 03/03/2000 5:44 PM Eastern
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The military's money managers last year made almost $7 trillion in adjustments to their financial ledgers in an attempt to make them add up, the Pentagon's inspector general said in a report released Friday.
The Pentagon could not show receipts for $2.3 trillion of those changes, and half a trillion dollars of it was just corrections of mistakes made in earlier adjustments.
"Last year, the Defense Department corrected errors in its bookkeeping that totaled $2.3 trillion -- more than the entire federal budget," Thompson said in a statement, calling them "changes made to plug holes for things they couldn't explain."
"When you spend money, you account for it -- that is required in the federal government," Jacobson said. "But DoD doesn't have that. They just say, ... `We had money, we spent it.'
"Then they try to go back later and say how they spent it and try to pull the balance sheet together."
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funny you dont mention the other 11 federal agencies under CLINTON that could not account for theor spending
I merely support peoples right to earn as much as possible (legally).
It doesn't matter what color, creed or political leanings they have.
Hmm, so you really don't have a probelm with those very same people taking other peoples retirement and savings and make/lose billions of dollars? It is done legally to a certain extent at least for now. What about bankers making up fees in order to circumvent the regulations keeping them from skimming from the public? It is also legal.
Your thinking process is right but that only applies when the powers to be are on the same page.
"A chicken can always hope that the fox does not eat it, the fox can only hope that the chicken is tasty" -----Simonism
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