September 10th, 2001....

[wildbilln864]

Do you remember what happened that day?
Here's a reminder. :hi:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

1. 9/10/01

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/28/eveningnews/main325887.shtml

[Ohio Joe]

2. I'm not sure I see the point

Waste at the pentagon did not start on 9/10, was not even first talked about then. My youngest brother was an auditor for the dod from 86-97, they had a crap load of them and they still were not enough. His (my brother personally) biggest single find was for John Deere, getting away with over 45 million on one contract (he spent three months on the audit). The government settled with them for 5 million returned and a promise not to do it again. There are so many contracts, and for the government to hire auditors to go through every one and hire lawyers to prosecute every case of fraud, it would cost more then they get ripped off for. Government waste is nothing new, not then, not before, not now, don't take my word for it, go look.

What do you think this report suggests? Even looking through the eyes of M/LIHOP, I don't see what an announcement on a government crack down on waste suggests for 9/11. Why do it the day before? Why do it at all?

[PatrickSMcNally]

3. Had already appeared much earlier

The story of a missing 2.3 trillion had already appeared by at the latest March 3, 2000:

http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=002hxm

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Pentagon's finances in disarray

By JOHN M. DONNELLY The Associated Press 03/03/00 5:44 PM Eastern

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The military's money managers last year made almost $7 trillion in adjustments to their financial ledgers in an attempt to make them add up, the Pentagon's inspector general said in a report released Friday.

The Pentagon could not show receipts for $2.3 trillion of those changes, and half a trillion dollars of it was just corrections of mistakes made in earlier adjustments...
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http://www.defense-and-society.org/fcs/comments/c399.htm

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Tighten Pentagon's Purse Strings Until It Passes an Audit

JACK SHANAHAN and FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY
Los Angeles Times
December 29, 2000

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The picture becomes even more horrifying when the Pentagon's financial transactions are examined. The Defense Department's inspector general recently identified $6.9 trillion in accounting entries, but $2.3 trillion was not supported by adequate audit trails or sufficient evidence to determine its validity.

Another $2 trillion worth of entries were not examined because of time constraints, and therefore, the inspector general was able to audit only $2.6 trillion of accounting entries in a $6.9-trillion pot...
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While I have no interest in exculpating the Bush administration on anything, the above reports make it clear that there was nothing special about the September 10, 2001, announcement and that the story had been in the news before Bush took office.

[Darwins Doberman]

4. I remember I totally fucked up my computer trying to install Mandrake Linux