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CORBETT INTERVIEW 1407 – MARK SKIDMORE ON THE PENTAGON’S MISSING TRILLIONS. his research with Catherine Austin Fitts into the $21 trillion in unaccounted transactions on the books of the US Department of Defence and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. We discuss what we know and don’t know about the subject, the Pentagon’s nonsensical and inadequate excuses for the debacle, the new accounting guideline that legally allows every department of the federal government to create fake and altered books for public consumption, the recent failed Pentagon audit, the government’s refusal to On Oct. 15, J.M. Berger, a prolific author and researcher on extremism, made public on Intelwire a large number of previously open sources. The material includes thousands of pages of reports, communications and other primary-source docu*ents related to the efforts of the CIA, FBI and State Department to as*ess and respond to the threat of terrorism in the years leading up to and following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Portions of many of the docu*ents remain redacted. Below is an overview of the scope of each of the five SUMMARY: The phrase “conspiracy theory” is often used as a pejorative, especially by people who take themselves to be sophisticated—such as scholars, government officials, and TV news personalities—even though they will generally admit that some conspiracy theories have turned out to be true. Their dismissiveness stems, in significant measure, from the as*umption that conspiracy theories imply implausibly large and malevolent conspiracies. However, the considerations offered in this booklet suggest: (1) conspiracy theories need not, and often do not, posit malevolence or implausible motivations, (2) alleged conspirators holding high office in Western countries should not be regarded as above suspicion, and (3) the scope of a (possibly well-motivated) cover-up may reasonably be expected to be considerably larger than the scope of the as*ociated (possibly appalling) underlying conspiracy. The third finding suggests that