Not many people seem to remember the big news story on 9/10/2001 because of the timing it was released (obviously the day before 9/11). Do you? I've
often wondered about the status of the promised investigation of it... there is no status because there never was an investigation... just an
announcement to cover Rumsfeld.
In a nutshell, Donald Rumsfeld (then Secretary of Defense) announces that the Pentagon (whose ?accounting? offices were destroyed the next day) could
not account for $2.3 TRILLION - purportedly 25% of their budget although if you add up the Congressional appropriated defense budget from 1996 to
2001, you only come up with $1.6 trillion. That in itself is an investigative story... But... what about what they
admitted to??
Then in 2006, Congressmen John Murtha and Jim Moran were asked about it again at a town hall meeting and argued with the questioner that it was really
BILLIONS not TRILLIONS but offered absolutely no status whatsoever.
On January 29, 2002 CBS did a story on this subject:
The War On
Waste. That is the only MSM story I could find using Google today. I remember this being a
huge story and all of the main news agencies
running it. Have all the MSM stories been scrubbed away?
Damn, we sure could use that $2.3 Trillion right now.