Remarks: DoD Acquisition and Logistics Excellence Week Kickoff, Bureaucracy to Battlefield (September 10, 2001)

Transcript · Donald H. Rumsfeld · September 10, 2001

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's speech the day before 9/11, in which he said the Pentagon could not track $2.3 trillion in transactions.

Our financial systems are decades old. According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions.

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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's speech the day before 9/11, in which he said the Pentagon could not track $2.3 trillion in transactions.