Got me stumped Arjay, maybe that's a question for Barnaby Joyce.

see http://www.rense.com/general80/missing.htm Joshua Daniels asks where did the money come from since it could not have possibily been a part of the defence budget.That money was accounted for.

Some outside source seems to have put the money their accounts and then it has disappeared.Who has this sort of money.As Daniels suggests,only God would have this sort of power.

Ah, the God of the gaps again.

>>Some outside source seems to have put the money their accounts and then it has disappeared.Who has this sort of money.As Daniels suggests,only God would have this sort of power.<<

The problem with Daniels' assessment is that he, like you, assumes the money is actually missing. There was money, now there's not.

What Rumsfeld was talking about was not the existence or non-existence of dollar bills, but the ability of the Defense IT systems to properly track transactions from source to recipient.

The source is known. The recipient is known - as Daniels points out, troops got paid etc.

But the information about the intermediate transactions is incomplete, which is why he was referring to the number of different systems involved.

I also suspect there may be some double-counting involved. If system A appears to be unable to properly account for $1 million, and system B appears to be unable to properly account for $1 million, there is a possibility it might be the same $1 million.

But add the "discrepancies" together, and you get $2 million.

@Pericles: Except for my car keys, of course, which seem to hover between dimensions like Schrödinger's cat.

Thanks for the laugh.

@Pericles: Ah, the God of the gaps again.

And you correct it, yet again. Arjay should pay you for being his personal clinician.

Pericles ,if it was an accounting glitch as you suggest,then why bother making it public?I smell a big rat given the timing of this announcement,ie the day before 911 and the enormity of this amount of money.

Perhaps you need to do some accounting for the Melbourne Storm.They certainly need advice on glitches

Y'know I begin to understand how the bankers get away with robbing us blind. Every time someone tries to start a serious discussion about their shenanigans along comes a gullible conspiracy theorist like Arjay to muddy the waters