Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DavesM who wrote (245788)	4/6/2002 2:49:52 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769670

Tracing money is the kind of thing that absolutely requires full public accountability and open realtime disclosure. The documents are already in electronic form, all that's needed is an honest 21st century government to web-enable all information that doesn't have bona-fide military reasons for secrecy. The obsession with secrecy has to be reversed. I can't be convinced that the $43 million did, or did not go to the Taliban, or even whether it existed, without some honest accounting. As we know, that is the scarcest of commodities these days. What I do know is that Secrecy + Lots of Taxpayer Money = Corruption With that as an overriding principle, which it is, then the likelihood that millions went for the wrong purposes is much higher than it went for some purpose that would be accepted by the American people. We get screwed, people around the world get killed, and profiteers make zillions. A bad scenario.