Quote:The War On Waste
Defense Department Cannot Account For 25% Of Funds — $2.3 Trillion


(CBS) On Sept. 10, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war. Not on foreign terrorists, "the adversary's closer to home. It's the Pentagon bureaucracy," he said.

He said money wasted by the military poses a serious threat.

"In fact, it could be said it's a matter of life and death," he said.

Rumsfeld promised change but the next day – Sept. 11-- the world changed and in the rush to fund the war on terrorism, the war on waste seems to have been forgotten.

Just last week President Bush announced, "my 2003 budget calls for more than $48 billion in new defense spending."

More money for the Pentagon, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, while its own auditors admit the military cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends.

"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.

$2.3 trillion — that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. To understand how the Pentagon can lose track of trillions, consider the case of one military accountant who tried to find out what happened to a mere $300 million.

"We know it's gone. But we don't know what they spent it on," said Jim Minnery, Defense Finance and Accounting Service.

Minnery, a former Marine turned whistle-blower, is risking his job by speaking out for the first time about the millions he noticed were missing from one defense agency's balance sheets. Minnery tried to follow the money trail, even crisscrossing the country looking for records.

"The director looked at me and said 'Why do you care about this stuff?' It took me aback, you know? My supervisor asking me why I care about doing a good job," said Minnery.

He was reassigned and says officials then covered up the problem by just writing it off.

"They have to cover it up," he said. "That's where the corruption comes in. They have to cover up the fact that they can't do the job."

The Pentagon's Inspector General "partially substantiated" several of Minnery's allegations but could not prove officials tried "to manipulate the financial statements."

Twenty years ago, Department of Defense Analyst Franklin C. Spinney made headlines exposing what he calls the "accounting games." He's still there, and although he does not speak for the Pentagon, he believes the problem has gotten worse.

"Those numbers are pie in the sky. The books are cooked routinely year after year," he said.

Another critic of Pentagon waste, Retired Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan, commanded the Navy's 2nd Fleet the first time Donald Rumsfeld served as Defense Secretary, in 1976.

In his opinion, "With good financial oversight we could find $48 billion in loose change in that building, without having to hit the taxpayers."

Quote:El anuncio de que el presidente de EE UU, Barack Obama, no estará en el Foro de la Alianza de Civilizaciones ha caído como un jarro de agua fría... Lo sorprendente es que Obama estará el 7 de abril en Estambul pero, en vez de clausurar el foro, se reunirá con líderes culturales.
Fuentes gubernamentales creen que este cambio sólo puede deberse a las presiones de los neocons y de grupos de presión judíos

Flashman Wrote:Me permito retomar ésto al hilo del último post de mi blog.

Y es que, en ésta página conspi del 11-S, hay un video sobre el 11-M. Los atentados de Madrid formarían parte de un plan maestro de dominación mundial. Es este:

http://www.hghplus.info/investigar11s/11demarzo.html

Preparaos para otro retorno de Sísifo, aunque desde la vertiente opuesta. Si todo lo tocante al 11-S es del mismo calado, es para echarse las manos a la cabeza.

pantalla Wrote:Se me ocurren dos:


B) los pilares fueron cortadas después del derrumbe para facilitar la limpieza de la zona y para evitar accidentes (en la primera foro se ve a los bomberos son mascarilla, lo que quiere decir que fue tomada bastantes dias después del derrumbe de las torres).

Flashman Wrote:Dado que estoy tomando éste hilo como representativo de la conspiranoia que unifica 11-S, 11-M y 7-J, considero pertinente enlazar aquí ésta noticia:

Absueltos tres acusados de participar en los atentados del 7-J

http://www.publico.es/internacional/222039/absueltos/tres/acusados/participar/atentados/j

Flashman Wrote:Me vais a perdonar que siga con ésto , pero me han llegado éstas fotos:

Evidencias de que el acero de las vigas de las torres del World Trade Center, fué cortado con Termita.

http://911allthetruth.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/evidencias-de-que-el-acero-de-las-torres-del-world-trade-center-fue-cortado-con-termita/

En principio, se me ocurren un par de objeciones: tenía entendido que la supuesta demolición controlada se hizo a la altura de colisión de los aviones, no casi a ras de suelo como se percibe en las imágenes. Además, en las fotos se aprecia que no todos los pilares (o soportes, pero no vigas, que son elementos horizontales) están "cortados" a 45 grados, ni mucho menos. ¿Alguno tiene una teoría?