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Nope... The $2.3 TRILLION was there... Just like Rumsfeld says...
At the 3:05 mark...
Rumsfeld confirmed that the CLINTON admin admitted that they couldn't account for it, but that they think it's still there. What about that do you not understand?
Rumsfeld confirmed that the CLINTON admin admitted that they couldn't account for it, but that they think it's still there. What about that do you not understand?
I understand that the $2.3 TRILLION was there... Just like Rumsfeld says...
I understand that the $2.3 TRILLION was there... Just like Rumsfeld says...
At the 3:05 mark...
The CLINTON admin can't account for it but thinks it's there. That's all Rumsfeld knows. That's all he's ever said. Ask CLINTON where the money is. Read the 1999 DoD audit. Then check for the missing $7 TRILLION in the 2000 audit.
The CLINTON admin can't account for it but thinks it's there. That's all Rumsfeld knows. That's all he's ever said. Ask CLINTON where the money is. Read the 1999 DoD audit. Then check for the missing $7 TRILLION in the 2000 audit.
The $2.3 TRILLION was always there... Just like Rumsfeld says...
The $2.3 TRILLION was there... Just like Rumsfeld says...
yes it was all accounted for
this from 2002
Zakheim Seeks To Corral, Reconcile 'Lost' Spending
By Gerry J. Gilmore American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2002 -- As part of military transformation efforts, DoD Comptroller Dov S. Zakheim and his posse of accountants are riding the Pentagon's financial paper trail, seeking to corral billions of dollars in so-called "lost" expenditures.
For years, DoD and congressional officials have sought to reconcile defense financial documents to determine where billions in expenditures have gone. That money didn't fall down a hole, but is simply waiting to be accounted for, Zakheim said in a Feb. 14 interview with the American Forces Information Service. Complicating matters, he said, is that DoD has 674 different computerized accounting, logistics and personnel systems.
Most of the 674 systems "don't talk to one another unless somebody 'translates,'" he remarked. This situation, he added, makes it hard to reconcile financial data.
Billions of dollars of DoD taxpayer-provided money haven't disappeared, Zakheim said. "Missing" expenditures are often reconciled a bit later in the same way people balance their checkbooks every month. The bank closes out a month and sends its bank statement, he said. In the meanwhile, people write more checks, and so they have to reconcile their checkbook register and the statement.
DoD financial experts, Zakheim said, are making good progress reconciling the department's "lost" expenditures, trimming them from a prior estimated total of $2.3 trillion to $700 billion. And, he added, the amount continues to drop.
"We're getting it down and we are redesigning our systems so we'll go down from 600-odd systems to maybe 50," he explained.
"That way, we will give people not so much more money, but a comfort factor, to be sure that every last taxpayer penny is accounted for," he concluded.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Feb2002/n02202002_200202201.html (broken link)
Zakheim Seeks To Corral, Reconcile 'Lost' Spending
By Gerry J. Gilmore American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2002 -- As part of military transformation efforts, DoD Comptroller Dov S. Zakheim and his posse of accountants are riding the Pentagon's financial paper trail, seeking to corral billions of dollars in so-called "lost" expenditures.
For years, DoD and congressional officials have sought to reconcile defense financial documents to determine where billions in expenditures have gone. That money didn't fall down a hole, but is simply waiting to be accounted for, Zakheim said in a Feb. 14 interview with the American Forces Information Service. Complicating matters, he said, is that DoD has 674 different computerized accounting, logistics and personnel systems.
Most of the 674 systems "don't talk to one another unless somebody 'translates,'" he remarked. This situation, he added, makes it hard to reconcile financial data.
Billions of dollars of DoD taxpayer-provided money haven't disappeared, Zakheim said. "Missing" expenditures are often reconciled a bit later in the same way people balance their checkbooks every month. The bank closes out a month and sends its bank statement, he said. In the meanwhile, people write more checks, and so they have to reconcile their checkbook register and the statement.
DoD financial experts, Zakheim said, are making good progress reconciling the department's "lost" expenditures, trimming them from a prior estimated total of $2.3 trillion to $700 billion. And, he added, the amount continues to drop.
"We're getting it down and we are redesigning our systems so we'll go down from 600-odd systems to maybe 50," he explained.
"That way, we will give people not so much more money, but a comfort factor, to be sure that every last taxpayer penny is accounted for," he concluded.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Feb2002/n02202002_200202201.html (broken link)
every reconcile your check book....hmmm hc???
Your link doesn't work...
I understand that the $2.3 TRILLION was there... Just like Rumsfeld says...and lied in 2011...
Yes I provide a service for pets , only the rich can afford me. Funny thing , over half of my clients are Democrats .
no one ever said dems can't get rich, just that they probably spend more of it than conservatives. or they spend more when they have a lower income , whereas the conservatives spend less even at a higher income. it has to do with the innate tightness of their respective fists...not really how much money they have.
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it was there.
