Pentagon Finance Manager Resigns

[Oilwellian]

The Pentagon's chief financial officer has offered his resignation after overseeing a spiralling defence budget look set to hit $450 billion in 2005.


Rabbi Dov Zakheim's refused to tell journalists the exact reason for his departure on Wednesday.

However, he hinted that the task of controlling hundreds of billions of dollars in the Bush administration was exhausting.

"I'm leaving because I've served three very arduous years in this job."

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/635B6007-9DD0-436C-BFF6-E6521520B1C7.htm

[jean]

1. he was just on c-span the other day, being grilled about that budget

[UpInArms]

2. and how about those missing trillions of dollars?

http://www.whereisthemoney.org/1.1trillion.htm

and

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

More money for the Pentagon, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, while its own auditors admit the military cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends.

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

$2.3 trillion — that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. To understand how the Pentagon can lose track of trillions, consider the case of one military accountant who tried to find out what happened to a mere $300 million.

"We know it's gone. But we don't know what they spent it on," said Jim Minnery, Defense Finance and Accounting Service.

Minnery, a former Marine turned whistle-blower, is risking his job by speaking out for the first time about the millions he noticed were missing from one defense agency's balance sheets. Minnery tried to follow the money trail, even crisscrossing the country looking for records.

"The director looked at me and said 'Why do you care about this stuff?' It took me aback, you know? My supervisor asking me why I care about doing a good job," said Minnery.

He was reassigned and says officials then covered up the problem by just writing it off.

[Ruby Romaine]

3. Rabbi?

Is that true? Where is his congregation?
or did Aljazeera make that up?
Was he addressed as Rabbi at the pentagon
or as Dr.?

[mobuto]

4. He's DOCTOR Zakheim

Al Jazeera's just trying to make it absolutely clear to even their dumbest reader that Dov Zakheim's a Jew.