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vtfarmer on September 14, 2007 - 5:41pm

Eric--

Tell ya what--I'll concede the point. Now the context was that Rumsfeld was selling a position and the GAO came out a few months later and said there were about 1.1 trillion in 'undocumentable adjustments' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense], so about half of Rumsfeld's number, but you are right, it is certainly not a 'but that's ridiculous' context.

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eric blair on September 15, 2007 - 9:43am

Thanks for the 1.1 figure and the stat3ement about how we can't find it and are not gonna look for it.

More "missing money" here:
http://www.solari.com/learn/articles_missingmoney.htm

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