Of course, a mere forty-five billion dollars is but pocket change, compared to the missing 2.3 trillion dollars former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced was missing one day prior to the 9/11 operation. But then, as now, the problem lay with the accounting for the missing funds, and efforts were made in Congress – to little avail – to find out what companies held the contracts to manage the Pentagon’s databases, and where the money was.