4.5.05

$100 Million War Scam

So, who is going to account for the more than $100 million that has been lost through fraudulent charges in the war in Iraq?

Probably not from these previous shortfallings...
In March and early April, Pentagon audits showed more than $200 million in questionable costs in a massive, no-bid Halliburton Co. contract for delivering fuel to Iraq. Later in April, an inspector general's report concluded that a British security firm lacked proof that its armed employees had received proper weapons training and that the Army had not provided enough oversight of the company's work. And last week, a Government Accountability Office report said U.S. officials had all but abandoned their responsibility for overseeing a contract under which employees of CACI International Inc. had conducted interrogations at Abu Ghraib prison.
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Yesterday's audit of spending in south-central Iraq was accompanied by two others, both of which also uncovered evidence of poor accounting. One looked at the management of Iraqi funds while the other examined the spending of U.S. taxpayer funds from the $18.4 billion Congress authorized in 2003 for reconstruction. The audit of U.S. funds found that contract files were "unavailable, incomplete, inconsistent and unreliable." As a result, auditors said the U.S. government may have trouble making a case against contractors that overbill or don't do what they are supposed to.
Great record keeping, fellas. Once again, outstanding.

Well, you know, we paid This Guy well beyond when his time in our limelight was finished.

And no worries, it'll just be picked up in the recent $81 bil spending bill Congress just passed for the war. More that $400 million total in swindles is a drop in the bucket of an $81 billion dollar yearly war.

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Blogger General Stan said...

lotta hits but no comments. open forum, folks

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