Where did the 1.2 trillion go?

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Hi, this is my first post and i would really appreciate it if someone could answer my question.
I heard from a friend that the day before 9/11 Rumsfeld announced that 1.2 trillion dollars had gone missing from the American militaries coffers.Can anyone verify this? If so why was the question of where the money went not investigated after the chaos of the situation had died down?
As i understand things 1.2 trillion is not an amount of money that can dissapear without a trace...
Greetings from London and keep up the good work. thanks.

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It was 2.3 trillion dollars

Here is a good take on the situation.

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On September 10, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admitted that the Pentagon had lost, by the estimate he chose to use for his speech, 2.3 trillion dollars. Many of you good readers know about this, and are asking where the money went. That's a good question, but what really intrigues me is:

Where did it come from?

If you add up the entire US defense budgets from 1996 to 2001, you only come up with circa 1.6 trillion. Yet, according to Rummy, not only was that much money lost, but an ADDITIONAL 700 BILLION dollars has disappeared. Remember, we're talking about 2.3 trillion dollars "missing."

Exact figures very by source, but are close to each other, so I'll deal in round numbers. To come up with 2.3 trillion dollars of military spending, you have to add up all the defense budgets from about 1991 to 2001. For all those years, the Pentagon spent hundreds of billions and didn't get a single receipt, didn't account for a single dime? Not possible, and no one's claiming that it happened. The missing money was part of some budget, but it's a number bigger than the defense budgets we're to believe it's a "part" of, so it was a part of some OTHER budget, one we don't know about.

1996 through 2001 is a lot of years for the Government Accounting Office (GAO) to fail to notice that the entire defense budget went missing. I don't believe they did fail to notice it, because the missing money wasn't on the books to begin with. It couldn't have been; it's more money than we gave them.

This is not an accounting error. We know the soldiers and sailors got paid, the tanks and planes got bought, and the missiles got purchased, because the companies that made them cashed the checks, and the banks issued statements showing that the money went out and to whom it went. We know that most of that money got properly accounted for, because the GAO and OMB have been checking figures, making recommendations for savings, etc., and would have spotted a gap of any real size. We also suspect the usual drugs, cars, mansions, and hookers of all ages and sexes. But all these only add up to the official hundreds of billions, not the missing thousands of billions.

Most of the missing money could never have been part of a defense budget, and could not have come from our government. It had to have come from someone else, someone who MUST want the Pentagon to do something for them. Nobody gives gifts that big but God.

So, just who hired the Pentagon to do whatever they hired it to do? Who wrote those checks? What are they paying for? When do they expect it? Who is its target? How can we put a stop to this blatant prostitution?

I have no answers, but I can narrow the list: not many people outside the Federal Reserve owners have access to that kind of money. And not many people beside the Federal Reserve owners want to use the American military and its loyal, devoted troops to bend the world to their will.

Come to think of it, NO ONE outside the Federal Reserve owners meets those two criteria.

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i have spoken to people about this exact same thing yet almost nobody remembers this..... funny how 911 wiped peoples memories over something so important!!!
Funny how the media forgot about it and never ever spoke about it after 911!!! this was one of the things that made me call "b u l l s h i t" when silence occured after 911 about this issue.
Why is it that nobody cares? I just dont get it
cheers
bbwn

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That's a ton of freakin' money gone to simply ignore

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Big Bro's worst nightmare wrote:

i have spoken to people about this exact same thing yet almost nobody remembers this..... funny how 911 wiped peoples memories over something so important!!!
Funny how the media forgot about it and never ever spoke about it after 911!!! this was one of the things that made me call "b u l l s h i t" when silence occured after 911 about this issue.
Why is it that nobody cares? I just dont get it
cheers
bbwn

"Why is it that nobody cares? I just dont get it"

Probably because many people don't believe anything that didn't get reported by Faux Spews.

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	Brewdog wrote:
	"Why is it that nobody cares? I just dont get it" Probably because many people don't believe anything that didn't get reported by Faux Spews.

precisely