Trillions of dollars are missing from the U.S. government (Catherine Austin Fitts)

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"According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions." --Donald Rumsfeld, 2002

Catherine Austin Fitts -- Solari.com

What's going on? Where is the money? How could this happen? Where are the checks and balances? How much more has gone missing? What would happen if a corporation failed to pass an audit like this? Or a taxpayer? Who is responsible for this? Would your banks continue to handle your bank account if you behaved like this? Would your investors continue to buy your securities if you behaved like this? Learn more in the articles below.



	Independent Audit Report - Department of Defense Re: $1.1 Trillion Missing from DOD February 26, 2002 Testimony of the Inspector General - Department of Housing & Urban Development Re: $59 Billion Missing from HUD March 22, 2000 Discrepancies in America's accounts hide a black hole By Daniel Gros, Financial Times June 15, 2006 Road to Ruin by Eric Sprott, Sprott Asset Management Regarding the $11 Trillion Deficit in the US Government in FY 2004 January 2005 U.S.'s Missing $Trillions Make Mainstream At Last Scoop Media's version of the Chronicle Story with more links added May 26, 2003 Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and the Aristocracy of Prison Profits by Catherine Austin Fitts A case study of two teams each with competing visions for America. April 2006 Estimate $3.3 Trillion Missing From U.S. Treasury by Buddy Grizzard An excellent overview integrating coverage by key investigative journalists August 2002 Where is the Collateral? and So, Where is the Collateral? A two-part series by Chris Sanders of Sanders Research Associates in London These articles connect the dots between the missing money, the Where is the Money? litigation, questionable HUD deals, and the impact on the investment community October 2003 and July 2004 US "Could be going bankrupt" by Edmund Conway, Economics Editor UK Telegraph July 2006 whereisthemoney.org Web site documenting the missing money -- includes petition, FAQs, Who's Who ... also available in Spanish



	The Great “Incompetency” Heist by Catherine Austin Fitts, Scoop Media May 17, 2006 Shaking the Government Money Tree Missoula News October 2, 2003 US Government "Misplaces" Trillions of Dollars Anxiety Culture Bulletin News September 3, 2003 US's Missing Trillions Make Mainstream At Last Scoop Media May 26, 2003 The Solari Solution: A Responsible Way to Fund America's State and Local Government Deficits Scoop Media May 2003 On the Money Trail MetroActive September 5, 2002 Questions for a Congressman Scoop Media July 4, 2002 The Myth of the Rule of Law Sanders Research Associates November 2001 Testimony of the HUD Inspector General House Government Reform May 2000



	Auditor Quits with NASA Finances in Chaos By Arindam Nag and Deborah Zabarenko May 15, 2004 The War on Waste CBS News Citing "cooked books" at DoD, Rumsfeld on the missing $2.3 trillion, ... January 29, 2002 Military Stashes Covert Millions St. Petersburg Times September 28, 2003 'High Risk' Finance at the Federal Level Insight on the News August 21, 2003 Congressman Kucinich on NPR's 'Morning Edition' NPR, June 28, 2003 Pentagon Fights for (Its) Freedom CBS News May 19, 2003 Color Codes The Deja Vu View Back to Abnormal San Francisco Chronicle May 25, 2003 So Much for the Peace Dividend The Guardian May 22, 2003 Military waste under fire $1 trillion missing San Francisco Chronicle May 18, 2003 HUD's Financial Woes Continue Insight, April 18, 2003 HBO The Sopranos: "Watching Too Much Television" (Scamming the Feds) Sopranos Episode 46 Brian lays out a way to use bogus real estate deals to con money out of the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development... November 1, 2002 US Treasury Web Site Reveals $ Half-Trillion Deficit NY Post May 14, 2002 Government Fails Fiscal Fitness Test Insight on the News April 29, 2002 Pentagon's Unreliable Bookkeeping Stands as Obstacle to Bush Reforms Newhouse News Service 2001



	From Insight Magazine's investigative journalist Kelly O'Meara: Treasury Checks and Unbalances April 14, 2004 The 2003 financial statements mark the seventh year in a row that the federal government could not audit, let alone balance, its books... Is the US Going for Broke? July 14, 2003 'High Risk' Finance at the Federal Level August 21, 2003 The US Government reports that its financial management systems are seriously unreliable... HUD's Financial Woes Continue April 18, 2003 Government Fails Fiscal Fitness Test April 29, 2002 This article cites both the $1.1 Trillion and the $59 Billion... All That Glitters Is Not Gold March 2002 What Does It Take to Lose a Contract? March 2002 Cuomo leaves HUD in Shambles March 2001 Inside HUD's Financial Fiasco June 2001 A Financial Fiasco is in the Making July 2001 Rumsfeld Inherits Financial Mess September 2001 Total Lack of Trust September 2001 Wasted Riches October 2001 Bureaucrats Circle Their Wagons December 2001 Why is $59 Billion Missing from HUD? November 2000



	US Code: The Chief Officers Act of 1990 HUD Reform Act of 1989 Government Management Reform Act of 1994 Executive Branch: Department of Treasury Department of Treasury -- Internal Revenue Service HUD Office of Inspector General DOD Office of Inspector General DOD News Articles Reforming Financial Management System Can Save Big American Forces Press, Department of Defense, April 3, 2002 Remarks as Delivered by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, The Pentagon, September 10, 2001 Zakheim Seeks To Corral, Reconcile 'Lost' Spending American Forces Press, Department of Defense, February 20, 2002 Testimony before the House Budget Committee on the FY 2002 Defense Budget As Given by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and Comptroller Dov Zakheim, Cannon House Office Building, American Forces Press, Department of Defense, July 11, 2001 Congress: House Committee on Government Reform, Government Management, Finance & Accountability Subcommittee Wikipedia on House Committee on Government Reform Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Senate Government Affairs Thompson Report -- Government at the Brink, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 House Appropriations Senate Appropriations Congressional Audit, Evaluation and Investigation: General Accountability Office (GAO)



	Where is the Money? Litigation Ervin & Associates and the US Government shut down Hamilton Securities after it developed software for citizens to learn about HUD spending by place, seized the software, bankrupted the company, and never produced any evidence of wrongdoing ... see http://solari.com/gideon/ Tennessee's Get Our Money Back Campaign -- 2002 Includes: The Story of the Missing Money; A State by State Breakdown of What the Missing Money is Costing You and Your Family; Questions to Congressman Van Hilleary (R-Tenn.) on Actions a Congressman Could Take to Get Our Money Back



	1. Lockheed Martin Software That Steals: Mortgage Market Unanswered Questions - Hitting On HUD August 2002 2. AMS Federal Lawsuit Adds to AMS Woes Company Also Faces Trouble in Ohio, Vermont Washington Technology July 2001 A Taxing Dilemma by John Berlau Insight Magazine April 2001 IRS Boss Snagged a Clinton Waiver by John Berlau Insight Magazine May 2001 News Alert: Eizenstat Explains Why He Gave Waiver to IRS Commissioner by John Berlau Insight Magazine May 2001 How Can Rossotti Reform the IRS? Insight Magazine May 2001 News Alert: Grassley Questions Rossotti's Ties to AMS by John Berlau Insight Magazine May 2001 Rossotti Hires Raise Red Flags Insight Magazine September 20001 3. DynCorp CSC DynCorp & the Economics of Lawlessness Scoop Media April 2003 4. Harvard The Harvard Datadump -- An Update 5. Enron The Real Deal about Enron -- An Interview with Catherine Austin Fitts by Daniel Armstrong Scoop Media February 2003 6. The Carlyle Group Carlyle's Way -- Making a mint inside "the iron triangle" of defense, government and industry by Dan Briody Red Herring January 8, 2002



	Iraq Audit Can't Find Billions Boston Globe, October 2004 US Probes $100 Million Missing in Iraq MSNBC, May 2005 So, Mr. Bremer, Where Did All the Money Go? The Guardian, July 2005 Billions Wasted in Iraq CBS News, February 2006 Iraq's Missing Billions (video) Journeyman Pictures, March 2006 Halliburton Watch: US Mismanaged $8.8 Billion in Iraqi Funds, August 2004 CPA IG Finds Halliburton Mismanaged Government Property in Iraq Committee on Government Reform: Minority Office, July 2004 Iraq Revenue Watch: Reports & Briefings Open Society Institute, December 2004 The Not So Strange Case of Phillip Merrill Joe Quinn, Signs of the Times, June 2006 Balancing Our Bank Book: The Missing $9 Billion and More (Windows Media Audio; PDF Transcript ) Rep. Cynthia McKinney, June 2006



	Gold Anti-Trust Action (GATA) http://www.gata.org LeMetropole Cafe http://www.lemetropolecafe.com All That Glitters Is Not Gold by Kelly O'Meara, March 2002 Is a Silver Scandal on the Horizon? by Kelly O'Meara, March 2004



	From Kelly O'Meara ~ "Treasury Checks and Unbalances" April 2004 Robert E. Rubin, 1997, Unauditable "We believe that the publication of these audited statements is an important step in providing American citizens with more information about the operations of their government." Robert E. Rubin, 1998, Unauditable "We believe that the publication of this financial report is an important step in providing the AMerican public with useful information about their government's assets, liabilities and operations." Lawrence H. Summers, 1999, Unauditable "We are committed to producing and reporting financial information that meets the highest standards of integrity and to provide to the American people the accountability and professionalism they expect from their government." Paul H. O'Neill, 2000, Unauditable "I am committed to producing and reporting financial information that meets the highest standards of integrity and to provide the American people the accountability and professionalism that they expect from the government." Paul H. O'Neill, 2001, Unauditable "I believe that the American people deserve the highest standards of accountability and professionalism from their government, and I will not rest until we achieve them." John W. Snow, 2002, Unauditable "I intend to continue the commitment to producing and reporting financial information that meets the highest standards of integrity and to provide the American people the accountability and professionalism that they expect from their government." LINK: Solari.com