At 10 AM, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference and announced that the Pentagon has “lost track of” $2.3 trillion, which is “unaccounted for.” (video clip at link)

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At 10 AM, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference and announced that the Pentagon has “lost track of” $2.3 trillion, which is “unaccounted for.”

He goes on to highlight a number of other glaring inefficiencies in the Department of Defense.

September 10, 2026

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[Celtic Conservative]

For those of who are not conspiracy theorists, could you spell it out?

CC

[Tell It Right]

Thanks for posting. A more readable version at https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/01/25/waste_of_the_day_throwback_thursday_sept_10_2001_and_the_pentagons_forgotten_23_trillion_1005560.html

[lee martell]

And?

[BenLurkin]

I sure hope that went into building flying saucers — and not into Bill Clinton’s Swiss bank accounts.

[samiam5]

Never forget.

[TangoLimaSierra]

2.3T in 2001 would be more than 4T today.

[TigersEye]

I remember that. Losing track of that much money is kind of like a sea captain losing track of the continent of Africa. He's sailed everywhere on the globe looking for it but just can't locate it.

I also remember Hildebeast losing $6 billion dollars from the State Dept. while not having enough money to provide proper security to the consulate in Libya.

State Dept. Can’t Locate Files for $6 Billion Worth of Contracts

Small potatoes compared to $2.3 trillion.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Glaring inefficiencies. What a euphemism.

[Merrick]

I don’t know what ‘spell it out’ means, but Gerald Posner went into this in great detail in his thoroughly documented book on everything 9/11 and among the ironies is that the very group tasked with ‘accounting’ for this money was officed in the section of the Pentagon that was hit on 9/11, which exacerbated the resolution of the issue, but that over the course of several months after tbat day the thorough accounting was done and the ‘missing money was fully accounted for. Here’s the ‘funny’ thing, so to speak - when Rumsfeld made the announcement we were in a peacetime stature and issues like that are front page news - when the accounting was done were embroiled in two wars and follow ups to stories like that suddenly page E9 news. I can’t detail everything here, but you can read the account in Posner’s book as well as anyone *if* you really want the answer and think it’s important. Or, Posner gives a thumbnail account here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EvwdlBe8W4

[Merrick]

Why does your realclearinvestigations link resolve to a “not found” page on FR? I’d like to see what they actually have to say about this.

[HYPOCRACY]

At that moment it became a known unknown.