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In reply to the discussion: 8.5 TRILLION !!! - The Pentagon's Doctored Ledgers Conceal Epic Waste - Reuters [View all]DrDebug
(3,847 posts)Here's an older post about the subject:
Project for the Exposure of Hidden Institutions
Unacknowledged Special Access Programs
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A big questions that remains of course is how all these projects are funded. The official black budget of the DoD would be the most likely explanation, but there are 'indications' that the U.S. economy is being plundered for at least $1 trillion every year (yes, about 10% of GNP). Because no one is going to believe this without reading the full original sources, I cached all the mainstream news reports at the bottom of this article. I extracted the following numbers from these reports:
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Year Missing Sources (all cached at the bottom)
1998 $3.4 trillion Washington Times
1999 $2.3 trillion Congressional meeting
2000 $1.1 trillion Congressional meeting; Insight Magazine
2001 $2.3 trillion CBS quoting Rumsfeld
2002 $1+ trillion San Francisco Chronicle; CBS
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Sadly the original website has gone missing. Never mind, because web.archive provides a copy as usual
1998:
http://web.archive.org/web/20061211174815/http://home.planet.nl/~reijd050/organisations/USAPs/1999_04_01_Washington_Times_more_than_3_trillion_missing_in_1998.htm
1999:
http://web.archive.org/web/20061024110335/http://home.planet.nl/~reijd050/organisations/USAPs/2000_11_06_Insight_Magazine_Why_Is_59_Billion_Missing_From_HUD.htm
2000 (HUD):
http://web.archive.org/web/20060509201538/http://home.planet.nl/~reijd050/organisations/USAPs/2001_06_25_Insight_Magazine_Inside_HUDs_Financial_Fiasco.htm
2000:
http://web.archive.org/web/20061107192611/http://home.planet.nl/~reijd050/organisations/USAPs/2001_09_03_Insight_Magazine_Rumsfeld_inherits_Financial_Mess.htm
2001:
http://web.archive.org/web/20061215082039/http://home.planet.nl/~reijd050/organisations/USAPs/2002_01_29_CBS_News_The_War_on_Waste.htm
2002: (includes $640 for a toilet seat)
http://web.archive.org/web/20061215082128/http://home.planet.nl/~reijd050/organisations/USAPs/2003_05_18_SF_Chronicle_Military_Waste_Under_Fire.htm