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Rumsfeld’s speech on 10 September 2001
RECORD / AT A GLANCE
False
False as told. The $2.3 trillion was not missing cash. It was a total of accounting entries that lacked proper audit trails, and it had been reported in government records and testimony long before 9/11.
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10 Sep 2001
Rumsfeld speaks about Pentagon bureaucracy.
29 Jun 2023
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The figure was accounting entries without audit trails, reported long before the attack, not missing cash.
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Bookkeeping, not a heist.
PolitiFact found the Pentagon did not report $2.3 trillion missing on 10 September 2001. The figure referred to accounting entries that lacked adequate audit trails, detailed in government records, news reports and an official’s testimony long before the attacks. [1] The Pentagon’s accounting problems were real and public. But the claim that the attack was staged to hide the number has no evidence behind it.
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