Pentagon Engaged in Systematic, Widespread Deception
...and no, not just to our "enemies". Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon (he certainly acts like he owns it and that the taxpayers have zero to do with it nor should they be apprised of anything he does) has acted more like a super NSA (No Such Agency). This comes on the heels of indication that we have NO understanding of how many hundreds of billions he's expended on the War on Terror or in Iraq contracts, where Rumsfeld refuses to account for a single dime while we know from soldiers money hasn't been going into necessary body armor, bullets, or any of the other little tidbits often needed by soldiers engaged in combat.
Read this from WaPo:
Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in the debate.So... what's going to be done about it besides Bush patting Rummy on the shoulder and saying, "You're doing a hell of a job,
Suspicion of wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-member commission, in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation, according to several commission sources. Staff members and some commissioners thought that e-mails and other evidence provided enough probable cause to believe that military and aviation officials violated the law by making false statements to Congress and to the commission, hoping to hide the bungled response to the hijackings, these sources said.
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