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originally posted by: Salander
a reply to: EvilAxis
Not to go off topic, but Pentagon accounting procedures are notorious for being "smoke & mirrors". An excellent current example is the $43 million they paid for a LNG station in Afghanistan. Grassley's recommendations were ignored, as usual.
originally posted by: EvilAxis
Indeed, and again, like the $2.3 trillion, no documentation or records from the Department of Defense, but, according to Hellobruce, "only silly truthers say that money was missing". He insists it's accounted for, but doesn't respond when asked for evidence.
In February of 2002 the DoD released this statement in which they said that: DoD financial experts, Zakheim said, are making good progress reconciling the department's "lost" expenditures, trimming them from a prior estimated total of $2.3 trillion to $700 billion. And, he added, the amount continues to drop.
Indeed, and again, like the $2.3 trillion, no documentation or records from the Department of Defense, but, according to Hellobruce, "only silly truthers say that money was missing". He insists it's accounted for, but doesn't respond when asked for evidence.
The Pentagon alone among all federal agencies has never been audited, with roughly £8.5 trillion in taxpayers' money now unaccounted for since 1996, the first year it was supposed to be audited.
Zakheim Seeks To Corral, Reconcile 'Lost' Spending
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2002 -- As part of military transformation efforts, DoD Comptroller Dov S. Zakheim and his posse of accountants are riding the Pentagon's financial paper trail, seeking to corral billions of dollars in so-called "lost" expenditures.
For years, DoD and congressional officials have sought to reconcile defense financial documents to determine where billions in expenditures have gone. That money didn't fall down a hole, but is simply waiting to be accounted for, Zakheim said in a Feb. 14 interview with the American Forces Information Service. Complicating matters, he said, is that DoD has 674 different computerized accounting, logistics and personnel systems.Most of the 674 systems "don't talk to one another unless somebody 'translates,'" he remarked. This situation, he added, makes it hard to reconcile financial data.
Billions of dollars of DoD taxpayer-provided money haven't disappeared, Zakheim said. "Missing" expenditures are often reconciled a bit later in the same way people balance their checkbooks every month. The bank closes out a month and sends its bank statement, he said. In the meanwhile, people write more checks, and so they have to reconcile their checkbook register and the statement.
DoD financial experts, Zakheim said, are making good progress reconciling the department's "lost" expenditures, trimming them from a prior estimated total of $2.3 trillion to $700 billion. And, he added, the amount continues to drop.
"We're getting it down and we are redesigning our systems so we'll go down from 600-odd systems to maybe 50," he explained.
"That way, we will give people not so much more money, but a comfort factor, to be sure that every last taxpayer penny is accounted for," he concluded.
web.archive.org...://www.defenselink.mil/news/Feb2002/n02202002_200202201.html
We cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions. We cannot share information from floor to floor in this building because it's stored on dozens of technological systems that are inaccessible or incompatible.
www.911myths.com...
originally posted by: gazzerman
a reply to: loveguy
Well I would say that it all makes sense if you look at it from both angles.
The first is the official story, lie about the way it collapsed to protect the knowledge that all buildings are rigged with a fail safe to protect them from data getting into the wrong hands so that people are not aware that perhaps many builds have a vulnerability if the fail safes were to be made aware. Then just to make sure, you take all the scrap and ship it off because there is a chance that some top secret data could still be lurking about. Percentage chance of this being the true story pretty high I would say.
The second, its an inside job, they rigged it up specifically for an event and too it down to hide various illegal dealings and the many other reasons detailed to death on here. Percentage chance of this is still up there based on so much weird stuff going on but, I would say if the building had a fail safe like I am suggesting then that fail safe could have been used to perpetuate the whole story where we find ourselves today.
Its simply a case of the building having always been rigged for a fail safe and what the real reason was for using it that day. The official story is not true but my point being that it does not have to be a conspiracy for the reasons it was pulled.
I just believe these and many others have a fail safe. How and why it was used is the real question but for another thread perhaps but its also been discussed to death.
It was really not my intent to convey anything about people being inside WTC-7 when it went down. I made this statement with-in the context of your concern about a building being under siege and blowing up the building in order to distroy any documents inside. If such an event were taking place, there would almost certainly be some people inside; either the workers and/or the insergents.
So this is what you mean when you say it was accounted for. We don't bother with actual accounts. Just accept somebody's say-so.
TextWhat does "New Pearl Harbor" imply?
originally posted by: skyeagle409
a reply to: wildb
Now that shows you don't know as much as you think, PNAC...
That is not an answer to my question. What does the "New Pearl Harbor" imply?
A catastrophic attack upon homeland America which would draw the country into global conflicts?
Possibly a false flag operation to achieve that aim?
What would it imply to you?
How does the world's smartest 911 researcher intentionally act so dumb for no other purpose than to troll 911 threads and not get banned for it? That's the 23 trillion dollar question.