Jerry Mazza appears very confused. The $1trillion figure is the reduced figure after Zakheim and his team had thus far tracked down $1.3trillion. So the figure should be subtracted from the original figure and not added.blackcat wrote:Blackcat, regarding Dov Zakheim, his tenure as Comptroller of the Pentagon began in May 2001Think 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. That story, as I mentioned, was buried under 9-11’s rubble. The two sums disappeared on Zakheim’s watch.
Similarly Mazza states "the two sums (which were actually the same money - CW) disappeared on Zakheim's watch". This is obvious nonsense. Firstly, the money hasn't disappeared it was merely untrackable under the accounting systems until Zakheim implemented various changes and set about tracking it. Secondly, even if it were genuinely gone and not just untracked (as was the case), it couldn't possible have all "gone" under Zakheim's watch as the figure was several times the entire yearly defense budget at the time and had been reported missing in January of 2001, before he was even appointed.
I am aware of much of Zakheim's connections and past. I don't know what you think quoting all this from a totally unreferenced site proves. It certainly doesn't prove that the $2.3trillion lost money conspiracy angle has any validity.Judicial Inc’s bio of Dov (linked below) tells us Zakheim was/is a dual Israeli/American citizen and an ordained rabbi and had been tracking the halls of US government for 25 years, casting defense policy and influence on Presidents Reagan, Clinton, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. He is, as I described him earlier, the bionic Zionist. In fact, Judicial Inc points out that most of Israel’s armaments were gotten thanks to him. Squads of US F-16 and F-15 were classified military surplus and sold to Israel at a fraction of their value.
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 Dov. Conflict of interest here? Depends on what you’re interested in. That is, in 2001 Dov 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
So you think that suggesting that the "patriots" killed in the Pentagon were on to the $2.3trillion heist and were killed because of it is as certain as 2 + 2 = 4?! How did the perps know that all the relevant staff would be killed (if indeed they were)? How did they know the info wouldn't survive on computers and paper files (if indeed it didn't)? Was it just coincidence that they happened to be at the recently reinforced and under-manned area (which seem like better reasons to hit that area to me)?Because the people who were subsequently murdered were patriots and they were making life difficult and demanding explanations? Yes it is speculation - like I speculate that 2 plus 2 equals 4.
Oh, and the info you provided confirms Zakheim started at the Pentagon in May 2001 a nd could not therefore have been responsible for losses which were reported in January 2001 (see the earlier PBS report).
