Sept 11th Is 'ere Again; Shall We Kill Its Ugly 'ead for Good?

So here we are on the day of the worst incident on US soil. Who are the perpetrators and why is a very strong debate amongst many. At the same time, brings sad memories for the relatives of the people who died and injured. I do not know why, but as uncomfortable it can be I like to write some to bring inaccuracies of the reported account.

First I like to bring the account of the planned defence of US by it's defence program and why it failed badly.

Let us take Mr Rumsfeld's eerie predictions shall we? The day before this on the 10th Sept Mr Rumsfeld admitted to the press that over 3 trillion dollars are missing from the Pentagon funds.

More money for the Pentagon, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, while its own auditors admit the military cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends.

"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.

$2.3 trillion — that's $8,000 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.

"We know it's gone. But we don't know what they spent it on," said Jim Minnery, Defense Finance and Accounting Service.

Minnery, a former Marine turned whistle-blower, is risking his job by speaking out for the first time about the millions he noticed were missing from one defense agency's balance sheets. Minnery tried to follow the money trail, even crisscrossing the country looking for records.

"The director looked at me and said 'Why do you care about this stuff?' It took me aback, you know? My supervisor asking me why I care about doing a good job," said Minnery.

He was reassigned and says officials then covered up the problem by just writing it off.

"They have to cover it up," he said. "That's where the corruption comes in. They have to cover up the fact that they can't do the job."

The Pentagon's Inspector General "partially substantiated" several of Minnery's allegations but could not prove officials tried "to manipulate the financial statements."

Twenty years ago, Department of Defense Analyst 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.

"Those numbers are pie in the sky. The books are cooked routinely year after year," he said.

Another critic of Pentagon waste, Retired Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan, commanded the Navy's 2nd Fleet the first time Donald Rumsfeld served as Defense Secretary, in 1976.

In his opinion, "With good financial oversight we could find $48 billion in loose change in that building, without having to hit the taxpayers."
 

From CBS Evening News.

And we know that Flight 77, allegedly piloted by an incompetent, made an aerobatic, spiralling descent over Washington, effecting a 270-degree turn to strike the Pentagon from a western approach at ground level. The side struck was the only one with an exterior wall hardened against attack, and was relatively empty while renovation continued.

From The Pittsburg Post Gazette, December 20, 2001: "One Army office in the Pentagon lost 34 of its 65 employees in the attack. Most of those killed in the office, called Resource Services Washington, were civilian accountants, bookkeepers and budget analysts. They were at their desks when American Airlines Flight 77 struck."

The Arlington County After-Action Report noted that the "impact area included both the Navy operations center and the office complex of the National Guard and Army Reserve. It was also the end of the fiscal year and important budget information was in the damaged area." And Insight Magazine editorialized that "the Department of the Army, headed by former Enron executive Thomas White, had an excuse [for not making a full accounting]. In a shocking appeal to sentiment it says it didn't publish a "stand-alone" financial statement for 2001 because of "the loss of financial-management personnel sustained during the Sept. 11 terrorist attack."
 

 How much of this is true no one will know for atleast 100 years. Even then they will stay buried for the good of the nation. Ha! But for theory of conspiracy this is high lark. If you like to see the whole article go here please.

This 2.6 trillion did not happen on the 10th Sept 2001. It has been debated right through 2000 to 2001. Lets see what was said and when. On February 12, 2001;   "How much does it take to run the U.S. military? Gwen Ifill discusses military spending with four experts."

JOHN ISAACS........... There's still huge accounting problems in the Pentagon. They don't even know how much money they have or are spending. The inspector general of the Pentagon said there are 2.3 trillion dollars in items that they can't quite account for. That's not billion. That's trillion dollars. $2.3 trillion -- and the General Accounting Office said there are about $27 billion in inventory items that they can't find. It's not a matter of money -- if the review just results war money put into the pentagon we'll be going in the wrong direction. It's time to move back.

 

According to 2001 predicted defence budget the total is $ 305,421 million. So to get to 2,3 trillion it must have gone for years before, and that means Clinton era and before. The fact is; that was very unfortunate that the announcement by Rumsfeld came the day before. Then comes another fact: the Pentagon had all the secrets and was destroyed files, computers and most precious the people who accounted for the Gov. I have not come across this before. Most probably this was buried for a few years.