cbsnews.com — On September 10, 2001, it was found out that the Pentagon couldn't account for 2.3 trillion dollars in their budget. The next day September 11, 2001 happened and there's been now word about it since in the media. Why are we not questioning this and making our leaders accountable for this amount of money when our national debt grows.
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The SEC had a lot of files on corporate corruption in WTC as well. Looks that all went up in smoke when our administration felt it was best to blow up the towers :(
unitedstatiansNov 25, 2006
American Enantiodromia - Vince Gonzales investigates<a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUKJNxdmX6Y">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUKJNxdmX6Y</a>Video Transcript....Narrator: Pentagon, the day before 9/11. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war, not on foreign terrorists.Rumsfeld: The adversary is closer to home, it's the Pentagon bureaucracy.Narrator: ... he said money wasted by the military poses a serious threat.Rumsfeld: In fact it could be said that it's a matter of life and death.Narrator: Rumsfeld promised change, but the next day, the world changed. (clips from the 9/11 attack) And in the rush to fund the war on terrorism, the war on waste seems to have been forgotten.Bush: My '03 budget calls for more than 48 billion dollars in new defense spending. Narrator: More money for the Pentagon, when its own auditors admit that the military cannot account for 25% of what it already spends.Rumsfeld: According to some estimates, we cannot track 2.3 trillion dollars in transactions. Narrator: 2.3 trillion, with a "T", that's 8000 dollars for every man, woman and child in America. To understand how the Pentagon can lose track of trillions, consider the case of one military accountant, who tried to find out what happened to a mere $300 million.Military Accountant: We know it's gone, but we don't know what they spent it on.Narrator: Jim Minnery, a former marine turned whistleblower, is risking his job by speaking out for the first time about the millions he noticed were missing from one defense agency's balance sheet. Minnery tried to follow the money trail, even criss-crossing the country looking for records.Military Account (Jim Minnery): The director looked at me, and he says "Why do you care about this stuff?" (laughs). It took be aback, you know? My supervisor asked me why I cared about doing a good job (laughs).Narrator: He was reassigned, and says officials then covered up the problem by just writing it off.Jim Minnery: They're gonna cover it up. That's where the corruption comes in. They gotta cover up the fact that they can't do the job.Narrator: The Pentagon's inspector general partially substantiated several of Minnery's accusations, but could not prove that officials tried to manipulate the financial statements. 20 years go, Pentagon employee Franklin C. Spinney made headlines exposing what he calls "The Accounting Games". He's still there, and although he does not speak for the Pentagon, he believes the problem has gotten worse.Franklin Spinney: Those numbers are pie in the sky, the books are cooked routinely year after year after year.Narrator: Retired Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan commanded the Navy's second fleet the first time Donald Rumsfeld served as defense secretary.Jack Shanahan: With good financial oversight, we could find 48 billion dollars and loose change in that building (pentagon) without hitting the tax payers.Narrator: In the two and a half minutes since this report began, the Pentagon has spent nearly two million dollars, and it may never know where 25% of those tax dollars went. In Los Angeles, I'm Vince Gonzales, for Eye on America.
unitedstatiansNov 25, 2006
RUMSFELD speech Transcript (redirects to defenselink.mil July 16, 2001?)<a class="user" href="http://www.dod.gov/speeches/2001/s20010716-secdef2.html">http://www.dod.gov/speeches/2001/s20010716-secdef2.html</a> Even more American Enantiodromia... (BBC 4 News)<a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPcAMlurOU0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPcAMlurOU0</a>Where has all the money gone?<a class="user" href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n13/harr04_.html">http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n13/harr04_.html</a>U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK <a class="user" href="http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/">http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/</a>A visual guide map of where the government spends YOUR giant tax dollars<a class="user" href="http://www.thebudgetgraph.com/view.html">http://www.thebudgetgraph.com/view.html</a>The Missing Money (collection of related articles and documents)<a class="user" href="http://www.solari.com/learn/articles_missingmoney.htm">http://www.solari.com/learn/articles_missingmoney.htm</a>Military spending, explained with Oreo Cookies <a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YzPuCGShI8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YzPuCGShI8</a>extended discussion<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/politics/Pentagon_misplaces_2_3_trillion_in_transactions">http://digg.com/politics/Pentagon_misplaces_2_3_trillion_in_transactions</a><a class="user" href="http://digg.com/world_news/Who_Stole_the_Estimated_$3.3_Trillion_Missing_From_U.S._Treasury">http://digg.com/world_news/Who_Stole_the_Estimated_$3.3_Trillion_Missing_From_U.S._Treasury</a><a class="user" href="http://digg.com/tech_news/Donald_Rumsfeld:_We_cannot_track_2.3_TRILLION_dollars_">http://digg.com/tech_news/Donald_Rumsfeld:_We_cannot_track_2.3_TRILLION_dollars_</a>You're welcom'd !
mrteflonSep 11, 2011
Show us the Money Republicans?
Where is it ?
Where did it go??
It was under your Honorable and Ethical Watch and oversight
Or so you say that the Bush administration was Honorable and Ethical..
So where is it?