* * * * september 10th , 2001 , the lead news item on tv was given by a tv news reader , after the dod have admitted that they can not trace 2.3 trillion dollars in their computer systems , secretary of defence , donald rumsfeld has announced a war on bureaucracy , setting up a taskforce in the pentagon to track down the missing money and improve the collection of financial information within his department [ 127 ] chapter fifteen stage b it was late evening .