Posted on 09/10/2026 7:08:17 PM PDT by ransomnote
2001 Live
@25YearsAgoLive
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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For those of who are not conspiracy theorists, could you spell it out?
CC
And?
I sure hope that went into building flying saucers — and not into Bill Clinton’s Swiss bank accounts.
Never forget.
2.3T in 2001 would be more than 4T today.
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.
Glaring inefficiencies. What a euphemism.
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
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.
At that moment it became a known unknown.
another bump for later
I saw this on Rumble. Rumble now seems like it’s Gone to the Tucker-Candace wing.
Sorry. I’ll see if I can find it again.
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
In the hyperlink (if I set it up correctly this time LOL) it's 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
Isn’t rumsfeld the guy famous for saying “there are things we know we know. there are things we know we don’t know and and things we don’t know we don’t know.”
I remember that. And then.....crickets.
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