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Fiscal Year 1999 2.3 trillion missing
Fiscal year 2000 1.1 trillion missing
....in FY99, revenues were 1.82 trillion dollars. Spending was 1.70 trillion dollars, the surplus was $124 billion dollars....
Federal budget for 2000: $1.8 trillion.
2000 United States federal budget - $1.8 trillion (submitted 1999 by President Clinton)
Originally posted by FissionSurplus
reply to post by ProudBird
"Everyone sees and understands"...? NOT. Standard trolling technique, isolating the people who see it for what it is, making them question their own ability to understand what they are seeing.
Your argument is weak and doesn't explain why we do NOT SEE United 175 hit the second tower.
I asked for an explanation as to why we don't see it, and you resort to saying that everybody sees it, day in and day out. Really, that's the best you can do?
Originally posted by Danbones
reply to post by Xcathdra
was not the investigation files and evidence in building seven?
.www.rense.com...
Now suppose one of the collapsed structures hadn't even been hit? Instead the nearby 47-story, WTC-7 burst into flame, a suspicious, haphazard fire that raged hours through several key floors long after the twin towers fell. Several of the floors housed Security & Exchange records pertaining to multi-billion dollar investigations. The Los Angeles Times reported on September 17, 2001 that an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 cases were destroyed. They included SEC's major inquiry into the manner in which investment banks divided up hot shares of initial public offerings (IPOs) during the high-tech boom.
By destroying the building, the fire and subsequent collapse destroyed the records forever and meant a huge net savings for CEOs and corporations being investigated. Add several hundred millions, perhaps billions to our crime spree so far
Were the auditors who could 'follow the money,' and the computers whose data could help them do it, intentionally targeted, asked Jim Marrs and Barbara Honegger in her Pentagon Attack Papers? "It is worth noting that the Pentagon's top financial officer at the time, Dov Zakheim, who also acknowledged the 'missing' trillions, had a company that specializes in aircraft remote control technology."
Curiously, like many top level civilians working at the Pentagon on 911, Zakheim held duel citizenship, US and Israel.
curiouser and curiouser said Alice.....edit on 16-3-2012 by Danbones because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Alfie1
www.911myths.com...
Hanjour was very lucky in his nefarious endeavour, because a pilot of his
experience, allowed to try multiple instances of the same manoeuvre, would
have a very high failure rate.
Originally posted by CFerguson
Originally posted by choos
...cant confirm its from a rb211....
Does your assessment justify this?
It might be why this list is growing. These type of people require confirmation.
patriotsqueston911.com...
Originally posted by choos
im just saying there were aircrafts in the 9/11 attacks..
are you telling me there wasnt any? are you telling me a global hawk with a max speed of 432 knots and gross weight of 11tons can make that large a hole in the pentagon. or a missile can leave engine parts and wheels causing that much damage?
or maybe you are one of those people trying to tell me a super high-tech-secret anti-gravity remote- controlled BALL with a 767 hologram pictured over it is what crashed into the WTC?
Originally posted by ProudBird
reply to post by CFerguson
Why do you ask a question about an RB211, and show this image:
The intact engine example is clearly labelled a Pratt & Whitney. (**)
What a deception, eh??
(**) Edit.....just so those not familiar can get up to speed.....a "JT8D" as labelled in the image example refers to a P&W engine. This one:
P & W JT8D
Now, the most puzzling thing here is.....there is NOT a Boeing 757 with a JT8D engine installed!
At all. The engine options for the B-757 were the RB-211 (various sub-models, depending on when) and the P&W options....there are three versions ( Pratt & Whitney PW2037, PW2040, or PW2043), all based on the very basic PW2000 series.
Hey, this is a lesson for the laypeople!!
A lot to learn, isn't there?
Originally posted by Alfie1
Originally posted by Danbones
reply to post by Xcathdra
was not the investigation files and evidence in building seven?
.www.rense.com...
Now suppose one of the collapsed structures hadn't even been hit? Instead the nearby 47-story, WTC-7 burst into flame, a suspicious, haphazard fire that raged hours through several key floors long after the twin towers fell. Several of the floors housed Security & Exchange records pertaining to multi-billion dollar investigations. The Los Angeles Times reported on September 17, 2001 that an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 cases were destroyed. They included SEC's major inquiry into the manner in which investment banks divided up hot shares of initial public offerings (IPOs) during the high-tech boom.
By destroying the building, the fire and subsequent collapse destroyed the records forever and meant a huge net savings for CEOs and corporations being investigated. Add several hundred millions, perhaps billions to our crime spree so far
Were the auditors who could 'follow the money,' and the computers whose data could help them do it, intentionally targeted, asked Jim Marrs and Barbara Honegger in her Pentagon Attack Papers? "It is worth noting that the Pentagon's top financial officer at the time, Dov Zakheim, who also acknowledged the 'missing' trillions, had a company that specializes in aircraft remote control technology."
Curiously, like many top level civilians working at the Pentagon on 911, Zakheim held duel citizenship, US and Israel.
curiouser and curiouser said Alice.....edit on 16-3-2012 by Danbones because: (no reason given)
No, why would all records pertaining to years of total DoD expenditure be housed in WTC 7 ? What evidence have you for it ?
The usual allegation is that the part of the Pentagon that was hit on 9/11 is where the records were but that is false too because the Army personnel killed that day were in fact working on Army budget statements for fiscal year 2001.
This whole $2.3 trillion issue is a complete red herring and the fact that it still keeps being dredged up only serves to indicate the poverty of the truther arguments.
As has been pointed out to you, the inadequate accounting was an historic problem and the $2.3 trillion figure was being bandied about before Bush junior was ever elected. It had nothing to do with him or Cheney or Rumsfeld and there was absoluely no motive for them to try and cover it up. In fact Rumsfeld did just the reverse by making public remarks about it.
www.911myths.com...
And, outside of trutherdom, does it really seem likely to you that all records relating to years of all DoD expenditure could be housed in one location with no duplication nor back-up anywhere ?
Donald Rumsfeld served in the administrations of presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and George W. Bush.
Large numbers of case files for ongoing investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) were reportedly destroyed in the collapse. The Los Angeles Times reported that "substantial files were destroyed" for 3000 to 4000 of the SEC's cases. The EEOC reported that documents for 45 active cases were destroyed. 3 Before the attack, SEC investigations of corporate fraud by companies such as Enron and Worldcom were the subject of many news reports -- reports that virtually vanished in the wake of the attack.
Examples of Corporate/Shareholder Fraud
WorldCom
During the yearlong investigation into WorldCom's accounts, nine billion dollars in discrepancies were found. The SEC levied charges against the corporation's CEO and several executives. Among these, Scott Sullivan (WorldCom's CFO) was indicted on counts of securities fraud, and David Myers (WorldCom's controller) pled guilty to committing securities fraud and falsifying SEC filings. In order to present a successful face to investors when company profits began to wane, former CFO Scott Sullivan led a series of accounting adjustments. Over five financial quarters Sullivan masked $3.8 billion in WorldCom operation costs. Another charge against WorldCom centers on the fact that the corporation's CEO, Bernard Ebbers, took 408 million dollars in personal loans from the corporation's funds.
Enron
Former top executives of Enron have been accused of hiding the company's debts by falsely adjusting financial records. Enron's accounting firm, Arthur Anderson, also began a process of shredding incriminating documents weeks before the SEC could investigate. The corporate fraud committed by Enron had huge repercussions for employees who had invested most of their savings and 401k retirement funds in presumably secure company stock. The investigation against Enron continues, and charges are being filed against the company's directors and leading accountants.
JULY 8--With the FBI slapping handcuffs on Kenneth Lay this morning, let's take a stroll down memory lane, when the disgraced former Enron boss wasn't under indictment and had a cozy pen pal relationship with George W. Bush. Below you'll find an assortment of correspondence exchanged during the years Bush was governor of Texas and Lay ran the Houston-based energy giant. The letters, released by the Texas state archives in response to Freedom of Information requests, touch on personal matters like Bush's knee surgery, Christmas gifts, birthday greetings, and even a Lay heads-up regarding a Thomas Friedman story about globalization. Enron, in case anyone forgot, was Bush's biggest Lone Star political contributor. (8 pages)
www.rense.com...
Latest On Rabbi Zakheim
And The Missing $2.3 Trillion
3-28-7
"I believe this to be a very important article. As you may probably know, I've steadfastly maintained that Dov Zakheim, the former Comptroller of the Pentagon, is a key conspirator in the 9/11 fraud. The following article sheds more light on this powerful shadowy character; the missing $2.3 Trillion; his connection to the mysterious Boeing 767 tanker deal (I believe the aircraft that impacted the Twin Towers were KC-767s, the military tanker version of the Boeing 767); and his involvement in SPC, the company that manufactures remote control 'termination' systems for aircraft. Yes, things are beginning to snap into focus very quickly..." -- a physicist in the 911 Truth movement
Following Zakheim And The Pentagon Trillions To Israel And 911
By Jerry Mazza
Online Journal Associate Editor
3-28-7
Think of this as part two of Recherche du trillions perdu, my Online Journal article on Dov Zakheim, former Bush appointee as Pentagon Comptroller from May 4, 2001 to March 10, 2004. At that time he was unable to explain the disappearance of $1 trillion dollars. Actually, nearly three years earlier, Donald Rumsfeld announced on September 10, 2001 that an audit discovered $2.3 trillion was also missing from the Pentagon books [1]. That story, as I mentioned, was buried under 9-11's rubble. The two sums disappeared on Zakheim's watch.
Yet on May 6, 2004, Zakheim took a lucrative position at Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the most prestigious strategy consulting firms in the world. One of its clients then was Blessed Relief, a charity said to be a front for Osama bin Laden. Booz, Allen & Hamilton then also worked closely with DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is the research arm of the Department of Defense. So the dark card was shifted to another part of the deck
Judicial Inc also points out that Israel, a country of 4.8 million Russian and Polish Jewish émigrés, flies on one of the biggest Air Forces in the world, thanks to Mr. Zakheim. Conflict of interest here? Depends on what you're interested in. That is, in 2001 Zakheim was CEO of SPS International, part of System Planning Corporation, a defense contractor majoring in electronic warfare technologies, including remote-controlled aircraft systems, and the notorious Flight Termination System (FTS) technology that could hijack even a hijacked plane and land or crash it wherever.
U.S. has lost sight of cash from $70 billion sent to Afghanistan: Inspector General
Iraq War misappropriations refers to allegations that billions of dollars have not been properly accounted for or misappropriated during the Iraq War from funds released by the United States Congress for programmes, including the re-construction and re-building of Iraq, after the war. Gag orders from the United States Department of Justice/White House are preventing further inquiry into the allegations.
Official audits and investigationsThe United States Department of Justice has 900 cases of alleged fraud by contractors to investigate.[1] The Defense Contract Audit Agency similarly has uncovered $10 billion in questionable Iraq contracts[1] and a US audit found that the occupation authority lost track of reconstruction funds totalling nearly $9 billion.[2]
Henry Waxman, Chairman of the United States House of Representatives committee on oversight and government reform, said: "The money that's gone into waste, fraud and abuse under these contracts is just so outrageous, it's egregious. It may well turn out to be the largest war profiteering in history."[3]
30,000 Pentagon Auditors Still Can't Find That Missing 2.3 TRILLION
In a hearing of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, Senator McCaskill makes clear that for a government agency, accountability starts at the top and wonders why the Pentagon has 30,000 auditors that can't seem to find where some of OUR missing money went.
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.
Though Defense has long been notorious for waste, recent government reports suggest the Pentagon's money management woes have reached astronomical proportions. A study by the Defense Department's inspector general found that the Pentagon couldn't properly account for more than a trillion dollars in monies spent. A GAO report found Defense inventory systems so lax that the U.S.
Army lost track of 56 airplanes, 32 tanks, and 36 Javelin missile command launch-units.
And before the Iraq war, when military leaders were scrambling to find enough chemical and biological warfare suits to protect U.S. troops, the department was caught selling these suits as surplus on the Internet "for pennies on the dollar," a GAO official said.
Given these glaring gaps in the management of a Pentagon budget that is approaching $400 billion, the coming debate is shaping up as a bid to gain the high ground in the battle against waste, fraud and abuse.
"We are overhauling our financial management system precisely because people like David Walker are rightly critical of it," said Dov Zakheim, the Pentagon's chief financial officer and prime architect of the Defense Department's self-styled fiscal transformation.
Among the provisions in the 207-page plan, the department is asking Congress to allow Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to replace the civil service system governing 700,000 nonmilitary employees with a new system to be detailed later.
The plan would also eliminate or phase out more than a hundred reports that now tell Congress, for instance, which Defense contractors support the Arab boycott of Israel and when U.S. special forces train foreign soldiers, as well as many studies of program costs.
The administration's proposal, which would also give Rumsfeld greater authority to move money between accounts and exempt Defense from certain environmental statutes, prompted influential House Democrats to write Speaker Dennis Hastert last week complaining that the proposals would "increase the level of waste, fraud, and abuse . . . by vastly reducing (Defense) accountability."
"The Congress has increased defense spending from $300 billion to $400 billion over three years at the same time that the Pentagon has failed to address financial problems that dwarf those of Enron," said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, one of the letter's signatories.
Originally posted by ANOK
reply to post by thedman
Fire proofing makes not difference when it's a known fact that one hours worth of room fire is not going to get steel hot enough to fail.
Of interest is the maximum value which is fairly regularly found. This value turns out to be around 1200°C, although a typical post-flashover room fire will more commonly be 900~1000°C. The time-temperature curve for the standard fire endurance test, ASTM E 119 [13] goes up to 1260°C, but this is reached only in 8 hr. In actual fact, no jurisdiction demands fire endurance periods for over 4 hr, at which point the curve only reaches 1093°C...
...Temperatures of objects
It is common to find that investigators assume that an object next to a flame of a certain temperature will also be of that same temperature. This is, of course, untrue. If a flame is exchanging heat with a object which was initially at room temperature, it will take a finite amount of time for that object to rise to a temperature which is 'close' to that of the flame. Exactly how long it will take for it to rise to a certain value is the subject for the study of heat transfer. Heat transfer is usually presented to engineering students over several semesters of university classes, so it should be clear that simple rules-of-thumb would not be expected. Here, we will merely point out that the rate at which target objects heat up is largely governed by their thermal conductivity, density, and size. Small, low-density, low-conductivity objects will heat up much faster than massive, heavy-weight ones.
www.doctorfire.com...
We also know it didn't get hot enough to fail because someone is seen standing right were the heat was supposed to be.
Not only that even IF it did get hot enough sagging trusses can not pull in columns! So fire proofing makes no difference, period.