This may be old news - if so, I apologize. But it is interesting even if it is.

Today, I was reading a magazine in a waiting room. I can't remember the name of the magazine - some kind of republican-leaning political publication.

The article was in the March, 2012 edition of that magazine.

Apparently, an estimated 2.3 trillion dollars have gone missing. I'm assuming this has already been discussed given that the article was from March.. But I found something I wanted to share.

The article described how that number could be considerably more.. A sign that the government accounting office is in such disarray and the auditing techniques are so out of sync with the DOD in general that this kind of thing should never have happened.. The article used some pretty brash language - saying things like, now I'm paraphrasing - "If this had happened to a company the board of directors would be out on their ear and the shareholders would be demanding new leadership".

I'm sure most of us probably couldn't agree more with that statement.

Some people have argued that alot of this missing money eventually goes to fund black projects, experimental technology, black budget biotechnology, etc.. It could be but what I don't understand is why there is so little media coverage of all this.

Earlier today, I was trying to google the article or, at minimum, a news story talking about this but I couldn't find anything. All I could find was a story from 2001.

It turns out the day before September 11th, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld told the American people that approximately 2.3 trillion dollars had been unaccounted for - possibly more. This was later pointed out by the 9/11 truth movement and we still have no clue where it went. A mistake you would think the government would've learned from right? Negative..

Now, notice the dollar amount... 2001 - DOD can't account for 2.3 trillion. 2012 - DOD can't account for 2.3 trillion. And it could easily be trillions more and we would never have any way to know.

This tells me that the DOD has been using this kind of technique for decades to keep certain projects, programs and technology secret. The DOD budget usually includes money for black programs though - some call it "The Black Budget". Not even Congress knows, nor will they ever know, where that money goes.

So if the black budget is accounted for in the annual military budgeting process, how do trillions of dollars end up missing for no apparent reason?

Why isn't this all over the news and why aren't American taxpayers demanding answers from their government?

Is it just a coincidence that the estimated dollar amount of the unaccounted-for funds is the same as it was in 2001? Is the DOD using this as a tactic as a whitewash? And, if so, what in the world is the DOD doing with that kind of money that they want to keep hidden?

I'll keep searching for that magazine article I saw and any other related news stories on the subject from March 2012. In the meantime, what is your take on all this guys & gals?

Is the government secretly preparing for something big later on in 2012? A sign of simple incompetence?

-ChriS

I haven't heard that before. Very good job!

Through my perspective this could easily go to HAARP as we are getting more and more close to WW3. Also the destruction of fortifications and facilities under the mountains either for the protection of the "rulers" of this world by the facts that are going to happen during or worse after the end of WW3 or for the development of nuclear missiles laboratories or storages.

Or maybe there is the other possibility that these money were spend for the establishment of both the rebels of Libya and the rebels of Syria by providing them the appropriate weaponry!

I also have another thought but it is far above "Above Top Secret" so if i tell you certainly won't believe me.

In summary, this was a very useful information and I am very glad you share it with us! Thank you!

Without any links to the report you mention, or any evidence to back up your claim it is hard to comment on this. The obvious question, with both amounts being the same is, is the magazine article actually pointing to the money still missing from 9/11, i.e. the money was never recovered, is still missing and maybe the article is going on about money that has been missing for well over a decade.

I find it sad that the US of A, a country that says it enshrines freedom has programs so secret and so nasty that even it government is not allowed to see the details, if something is so bad (And black projects are not to make nice cuddly teddies, or to heal people, they are designed for weapons, and operations that are illegal) that the congress cannot be told, should they be allowed to happen? Where is the oversight?

When I grew up (In the UK) America was a beacon, a shinning example to the world, now its chief export is death and destruction. People go on about America bashing and hating, I for one criticize a lot of the actions of the US government, not because I hate America, actually it is quite the reverse, I do because I know what America promised to be, I know what America could of become, instead we see them exporting wars and chaos in the name of mega corporations, we see it bleed is citizens dry and a new fascist state emerging as it cracks down on its people, it is so bizarre as well because the American people are probably the most patriotic in the world.

Maybe that is what the count on, peoples nationalistic pride blinding them to what is really going on. At least sites like ATS let me know there are still the real Americans still around, the ones I grew up respecting.


Whatever happened to the Peace corps?

I can't even think of why they would not risk upsetting everyone and their mother. The country is in a state of rapid decline and yet no one has the will to demand the DOD and the pentagon to reveal where they are spending our life's blood.

Until they do they are criminals and traitors to their people. Theft is not honorable no matter the one doing the stealing.

I saw show us everything or you don't get a dime....refuse to do the job because of that....then you are fired....

Why can't we have ONE Fracking POTUS be a decent human being and / or a decent American with testicular fortitude to do right by us?

seeing as how the reported amounts are the same could it be possible they were talking about the same case as the one in 2001 or was there something in the article indicated when this happened?
sometimes people are just late to the party (i wouldnt doubt it happening again though)

also in the earlier case they had said they were sure all the money was allocated properly and it was just an issue of there being no record of how it had been spent (my personal guess would be is some of it was spent properly but a lot of it was skimmed off the top and spent improperly)

so its not like all at once trillions of dollars just vanished its that there are trillions of dollars that had been spent over a fairly extensive period of time with no record of how it had been spent

which is almost as bad but still very different

It's quite simple. They got away with it the first time. Why not give it another go? They will get away with it this time too.

However last time the $2.3 trillion number came out the day before 9/11/2001.

So it's coming out now? A day before the Olympic opening ceremony 2012?

BOOM!!!

Well, after a quick google search I didn't turn up anything mentioning a 2.3 trillion dollar gap this year, but I could be missing it. My hypothesis would be that the article was referencing the 2001 error. I would think (hope) this sort of thing would have been picked up by someone if it had been mentioned anywhere official. Without knowing the source, we have no way of knowing.

That said, I have wondered if there were to be an Olympic related false flag, would it be used to destroy financial data like they did in 9/11? I wonder if the Libor scandal could benefit from something happening?

Originally posted by quailman03
Well, after a quick google search I didn't turn up anything mentioning a 2.3 trillion dollar gap this year, but I could be missing it. My hypothesis would be that the article was referencing the 2001 error. I would think (hope) this sort of thing would have been picked up by someone if it had been mentioned anywhere official. Without knowing the source, we have no way of knowing.

That said, I have wondered if there were to be an Olympic related false flag, would it be used to destroy financial data like they did in 9/11? I wonder if the Libor scandal could benefit from something happening?

When I was doing my own search for this article a couple days ago I noticed the same thing - There is nothing in the mainstream news about it. But the magazine WAS dated March 2012 and had alot of articles about the 2012 election with photos of Romney, Obama, etc.. I wish I could remember the name of the magazine but I'll keep searching.

Reading the article I got the sense that it was referring to a recent event though - Not something that happened 11 years ago. There was alot of information about the GAO, government accounting office, and how their auditing procedures are still incompatible with the DOD's accounting system.

Thanks for searching though. I'll let you know what I find.

-ChriS

Yet republicans don't want to spend a few billion so poor kids can eat, go figure.