Behind the Pentagon’s Doctored Ledgers, a Running Tally of Epic Waste
November 20th, 2013Never forget: Trillions:
I would argue that Chalmers Johnson’s estimate was corroborated on September 10, 2001, on the eve of the worst terrorist attack in US history, when Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged during a press conference that the Department of Defense (DoD) could not account for $2.3 trillion of the massive Pentagon budget, a number so large as to be incomprehensible. Any remaining hope that the US military might still get its budgetary house in order were dashed at 9:38 am the next morning, when the west wing of the Pentagon exploded in flames and smoke, the target of a terrorist strike. Incredibly, the exact point of impact was the DoD’s accounting offices on the first floor. The surgical destruction of its records and staff, nearly all of whom died in the attack, raises important questions about who benefited from 9/11.
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Reader JP notes the original source [mirror] of the $2.3 trillion figure; Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, The Pentagon, Monday, September 10, 2001:
According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions.
Via: Reuters:
For two decades, the U.S. military has been unable to submit to an audit, flouting federal law and concealing waste and fraud totaling billions of dollars.
Research Credit: alvinroasting
Best way to pay for black programs is to tell everyone you buy “bullets”/”military hardware” while in fact you give that money to someone else.
It looks like classic money laundering tactics to me.