The day before 9/11 on 9/10 Rumsfeld declared war. Not on a foreign anemy but on his own book keeping department: the Pantagon bureaucracy. Why? Because he announced that $ 2.3 had gone missing.

On 9/11 Hani Hanjour, the pilot whose  flying skills were so limited that he could not hire a Cessna flew towards the Pentagon from the South West and approached the Pentagon head on. If he had simply pushed the steering wheel forward he would have landed the plane slap bam into Rumsfelds office. But he doesn’t!. He makes a manouvre so complicated that an experienced Boeing 757 pilot and instructor needed ten attempts to succeed only once. None of his students, al already experienced flyers in their own right, could do it.
This is the simulation, based on the flight data they had received upon a FOIA request, of that flight made by a group of pilots investigating the events of 911.

The 757 turned around the Pentagon and allegedly hit the Pentagon flying just a meter above ground. breaking light poles in the process and hit the site which had just been rebuild to withstand such impacts and evaporated in the hole which was only 16 ft in diameter. The site that was hit housed the bookkeeping department. Little under 130 people died in that impact all of them bookkeepers.

Now new reports surface about financial irregularities at the Pentagon. if I was a bookkeeper there I’d thin about leaving for a new job about as far as I could away from that building.(travellerev)

The Pentagon is in crisis: The war in Iraq is entering its fifth hot summer. And while U.S. troop casualties are down, the light at the end of the occupation tunnel is no closer and no brighter.

Headaches mount on the home front as well. The head of the Air Force was recently embarrassed and forced from the cockpit. Billions of dollars have been misplaced or misspent. Huge cost overruns bedevil weapons contractors. And, private contractors have formed a cubicle mercenary force, outnumbering uniformed personnel and federal employees in many DoD agencies.

The Government Accountability Office has issued a series of reports on these problems. While the watchdog agency sticks to the script of analytic bureaucratese, what they document is cumulatively damning to business as usual at the Pentagon.

Money Problems

The Pentagon has its work cut out for it. Keeping track of its more than half trillion dollar budget and the hundreds of billions more in war spending is no easy task. There is bound to be some slippage here and there. But the Pentagon’s Inspector General’s Office recently reported to Congress that the Pentagon is unable to account for nearly $15 billion earmarked for the Iraq reconstruction effort. In a May report to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the Inspector General’s Office highlights $7.8 billion paid to contractors for everything from telephones to trucks without any support documentation—like a check for $5.6 million to an Iraqi contractor. For what? No one knows. Or the $32 million doled out to build a facility for the Iraqi military. Never built. Why not? No one knows.

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