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.
What the number was
Bookkeeping, not a heist.
What we can’t tell you. The fact check is the main source here.
The sources
- PolitiFact, 29 June 2023: the Rumsfeld 10 September speech ↗
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