In fiscal 1999, the Department of Defense was “missing” $2.3 trillion dollars. To put that amount of money in perspective, it is approximately 3X what President-elect Obama is .

In fiscal 2000, the Department of Defense was “missing” $1.1 trillion, about 1.5X what President-elect Obama wants to invest in America.

So between October 1998 and September 2000, the Department of Defense was “missing” $3.3 trillion. Because the amount of money disappearing is so enormous, years ago we started a archive of articles on the “missing money” to try to keep up with the trillions sliding out of the federal accounts.

From 1997 to March 2001, the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) who served as the chief financial officer for the Department of Defense was William J. Lynn III. In that position, he was the chief financial officer for the Department of Defense and was the principal advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense for all budgetary and fiscal matters. That means he was the person responsible to make sure no money went missing and that the Department of Defense published audited financial statements — which it failed to do in those years and every year since.

When Mr. Lynn left Defense in 2001, he joined DFI International and then in 2005 became the chief lobbyist for Raytheon. He was replaced at Defense by Dov Zakheim.

Today, President Elect Obama nominated William J. Lynn III as the Deputy Secretary of Defense. The press release said, “Lynn brings decades of experience and expertise in reforming government spending and making the tough choices necessary to ensure that American tax dollars are spent wisely.”

Obama also nominated Robert Hale to Lynn’s former position,  Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller).  From 1994 to 2001, Mr. Hale served as the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management and Comptroller). That means that Hale, same as Lynn, was in charge of the money when all the money disappeared.

I guess the guys who got the last $3.3 trillion were pretty happy with Mr. Lynn and Mr. Hale and decided to bring them back.

Which brings me to the question I keep asking, “Where is the money and how do we get it back?“

37 Comments

  1. The true former Comptroller of the Defense Dept in 2000 who stole 3.3 trillion dollars out of its budget was Rabbi Dov Zakheim, and not as now some newsmedia and you allege, William J. Lynn. For the truth kindly type in Google search, finnics7 or http://finnics7.blogstream.com. When in blog, scroll down a tad to link, Dov Zakheim. Also in google search type Dov Zakheim. Also see, http://www.debatebothsides.com/showthread.php?t=56508. For your blog to be trustworthy then you will kindly state the true Comptroller–and thief of 3.3 trillion–was the good Rabbi Zakheim. Dov Zakheim stole 3.3 trillion while Bernie Madoff stole only 50 billion dollars. Dr. Will PS. I sent a copy of this comment to my email address, for my record of it. So we wait your kind coreection. Thank you.

  2. The true former Comptroller of the Defense Dept in 2000 who stole 3.3 trillion dollars out of its budget was Rabbi Dov Zakheim, and not as now some news media and you allege, William J. Lynn. For the truth kindly type in Google search, finnics7 or http://finnics7.blogstream.com. When in blog, scroll down a tad to link, Dov Zakheim. Also in google search type Dov Zakheim. Also see, http://www.debatebothsides.com/showthread.php?t=56508. For your blog to be trustworthy then you will kindly state the true Comptroller–and thief of 3.3 trillion–was the good Rabbi Zakheim. Dov Zakheim stole 3.3 trillion while Bernie Madoff stole only 50 billion dollars. Dr. Will PS. I sent a copy of this comment to my email address, for my record of it. So we wait your kind correction. Thank you. PPS Corrected mispelling, news media and correction.

  3. Will:

    Various reports list Lynn as leaving in March 2001 and replaced by Dov Zakheim. The first link you post has no details on dates and the second does not work.

    Before reading your comment, I posted Zakheim in succession because of the criticality of his role.

    For more see our “missing money” page linked in the blog post.

    Catherine

  4. For a while this AM I had HP tek take control of my computer to solve font size problem (too large) when I edited my blog with Microsoft Office Word. And he showed me how. So during that time period you may not have been able to access my blog clicking on link I gave, http://finnics7.blogstream.com/. But you can also access my blog by typing in Google search, finnics7. Now I apologize for getting year when the good Rabbi Dov Zakheim made the heist from Pentagon of 3.3 trillion. You are right. The good Rabbi did the heist after Lynn had left as comptroller at Pentagon, March 2001. The good Rabbi Dov Zakheim did the heist sometime after March and before September, 2001. And the day after Rumsfeld was on CBS stating there was a thief inside the Pentagon sending trillions of Pentagon monies overseas (I wonder where?) the Twin Towers were attacked (9/11). It is extremely important to note that the adjacent WTC-7 building where all Swift Code records of all monies sent overseas–and other crucial records http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:fPL405H-NKMJ:www.justiceraped.org/content/view/45/7/+swift+code+records+were+in+wtc+7+building&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us–was ordered “pulled” by the lease owner, Larry Silverstein, http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:up4wUQ2OJcoJ:www.snootysims.com/forum/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D15800%26view%3Dnext%26sid%3D83a8f5e730d51c1a4673f1ee8692e156+silverstein+orders+w-7+building+pulled&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us. After an hour or so when I come back to your blog and click on the links I have put in they do work, open. In any event, thank you for helping inform the world’s people about many important matters. Dr. Will. PS. I wonder where the good Rabbi is.

  5. Will:

    Having served as the FHA Commissioner with fiduciary obligations for $300 billion in assets and liabilities and annual originations of $50-100 billion, I can assure you that one person can not steal $3.3 trillion and they certainly can not do it in a short period of time several years after it was reported missing.

    We are looking at a SYSTEM. The SYSTEM is very deep and very old. It involves thousands of people, numerous government agencies, including intelligence agencies, banks and defense contractors, not to mention societies and secret societies.

    Best,

    Catherine

  7. Lots and lots of paper (called money) which in a real reality or a right reality would have (probably) negative value. Its not the money, what do a bunch of dumb cattle being herded into (eventually) new gas chambers need with worthless paper. Go to youtube.com and type in Fema camps and start a journey towards the very ugly truth. New World Order of greedy power crazed monsters that imagine complete control but will never obtain this goal. Nazi Germany all over again except much worse. Lets hope I am wrong but I am not. Hard to see the real reasons behind this insane insanity when you consistently focus on bullshit.

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