Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld did not reveal that the Pentagon had lost $2.3 trillion the day before the September 11, 2001, attacks. The DoD had mentioned this number, which reflects transactions that could not be tracked, more than a year earlier.

An audit report, released on Feb. 25, 2000, about financial statements for the fiscal year 1999 by the Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Defense says, “For the accounting entries, $2.3 trillion was not supported by adequate audit trails or sufficient evidence to determine their validity, $2 trillion was not reviewed because of time constraints, and $2.6 trillion were supported.”

So they ACKSHUALLY revealed they could not track 2.3 trillion dollars a year earlier (but yes, Rumsfeld also did have that speech September 10, 2001)

I’ll bet you feel silly

Fact checkers are deeply unserious people.

That’s a masterful burying of bad news. But to be fair if I had to do presentation on how I’d lost a large countries GDP’s worth of money, I’d probably also do it the day before I knew a biggest news day for a deccade would be happening.