So what about that huge whistleblower "coming out" in Washington today?

I'm referring to this:

Scandals set to explode next week on Capitol Hill
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x874968

which in turn refers to this website:

Whistleblower Week in Washington
http://makeitsafecampaign.whistleblowers-usa.org/www/

Does anyone know how it went? Did anything happen at all? There's nothing on DU and nothing I can find on news sites. Here's hoping it wasn't yet another episode of "Too Good To Be True", the endless series...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml

The War On Waste
Defense Department Cannot Account For 25% Of Funds — $2.3 Trillion

check the date on the article.

Another astounding moment in American Failure. I wonder if he was still collecting stock from Bechtel at that time? Probably not.

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/donald_rumsfeld.htm

'Donald H. Rumsfeld was sworn in as the 21st Secretary of Defense on January 20, 2001. Before assuming his present post, the former Navy pilot had also served as the 13th Secretary of Defense, White House Chief of Staff, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, U.S. Congressman and chief executive officer of two Fortune 500 companies. But most importantly, he was a wrestling champion at Princeton famous for using the fireman's carry as his finishing move. (1) (4) Legend has it that Henry Kissinger describes Rumsfeld as "the most ruthless man he ever met."'

was Dov Zakheim. Here's some paragraphs from Wikipedia. There is much more.

Point being - has anyone asked him? His bio said he reduced the amount somewhat Hmmmmm.

The company he led prior to becoming Comptroller was said to have manufactured remote control for aircraft.

He worked politically to put George in office.

"From 1987-2001, Zakheim was CEO of SPC International, a subsidiary of System Planning Corporation, a high-technology analytical firm. During that period he served as a consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and sat on a number of major DoD panels, including its Task Force on Defense Reform (1997) and the DoD's first Board of Visitors of Overseas Regional Centers (1998-2001).

Zakheim is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the United States Naval Institute, and a member of the editorial board of the journal The National Interest. He is a three-time recipient of the Department of Defense's highest civilian award, the Distinguished Public Service Medal, as well as other awards for government and community service.

He was an Adjunct Scholar of the Heritage Foundation, a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and published over 200 articles and monographs on defense issues.

He was then appointed to be Undersecretary of Defense and Comptroller from 2001 to 2004 under the George W. Bush administration, and served in this capacity until April 2004. During his term as Comptroller, he was tasked to help track down the Pentagon's 2.6 trillion dollars ($2,600,000,000,000) worth of unaccounted transactions <1>. He initiated a number of processes that led to the reduction of that sum by two-thirds by the time of his departure, and to its reduction by over 99.9% within two years thereafter"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_S._Zakheim

Anyone going to ask him where he THINKS the money is?

Think about how many people have never talked about the missing money in the DOD or have never heard about it.

I think he, Rumsfeld, and Zakheim's successor should sit down for an interview.

to set up and implement their "new Pearl Harbor event"!
IMHO! link

I was wondering the same thing. Who's this whistleblower? What's the deal? :shrug:

about Star Wars. I recommend this article to find out who was who prior to #43. You'll recognize nearly all of them - waht they were doing and saying is the interesting part.

Same players. They finally placed themselves into all the important positions in our government and we have to ask if they have succeeded or not. What kind of a performance appraisal would they give themselves and each other.

http://www.mothersalert.org/starwars2.html

"In 2000, Rumsfeld was tapped to head a new, 13-member commission "to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization." As with the 1998 commission, this one was packed with true believers (two men--Rumsfeld and William Graham--served on both). Rumsfeld resigned his chairmanship of this second commission in order to take the job of defense secretary and accept the commission's findings, released Jan. 11.

Among those findings:

* The United States faces the possibility of a "Space Pearl Harbor"--a sneak attack on its space-based assets.

* "Our growing dependence on space, our vulnerabilities in space and the burgeoning opportunities from space are simply not reflected in present institutional arrangements."

* The United States must not sign any treaties that would prohibit weapons in space.

* War in space is inevitable. "

I find it a continuing source of amusement that they think I'm on the verge of centrist/moderate.

we actually have a two party system instead of a complicit "democratic led" legislative branch.
Mark my words, nothing will come of any of it.
The multi national corporate wheel continues to crush us all.

BHN