Mica was with Donald Rumsfeld for a breakfast meeting at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Purpose of the meeting: "to make certain we were prepared for something we might not expect". Audio clip from the August 1, 2007 House Oversight Committee on Pat Tillman's Death.

On September 10, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech to kick off DOD Acquisition and Logistics Excellence Week Kickoff—Bureaucracy to Battlefield. It was in this speech that Rumsfeld said that by some estimates "we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions". The assumption made by most people in the 9-11 Truth community that what he meant was that $2.3 trillion dollars came up missing from the DOD accounts. And they pointed at Dov Zakheim as the suspect because he was Undersecretary of Defense and Comptroller of the Pentagon. That's a reasonable suspicion minus a few critical insights into the process of selling information technology and computer systems. It's standard procedure in the IT Consulting business when justifying costs for new systems to pump up the negatives as reasons why the new system(s) are needed. The bigger the new system(s), the higher the dollar value of the negatives for not doing it. The fact that Rumsfeld used $2.3 trillion as the negative indicates how big the contract values are for the privatization of the military that he was selling.