[paragraph_left][block] Left Side Content [/block][block] Right Side Content [/block][/paragraph_left]The State Dept. states that it doesn’t know what happened to $6 billion over the past 6 years – claiming there just wasn’t enough oversight.
So they just forgot to make sure that someone was watching billions of dollars and now there’s no way to trace what happened.
Right!
he State Department has no idea what happened to $6 billion used to pay its contractors.
In a special “management alert” made public Thursday, the State Department’s Inspector General Steve Linick warned “significant financial risk and a lack of internal control at the department has led to billions of unaccounted dollars over the last six years.
The alert was just the latest example of the federal government’s continued struggle with oversight over its outside contractors.
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The lack of oversight “exposes the department to significant financial risk,” the auditor said. “It creates conditions conducive to fraud, as corrupt individuals may attempt to conceal evidence of illicit behavior by omitting key documents from the contract file. It impairs the ability of the Department to take effective and timely action to protect its interests, and, in tum, those of taxpayers.”
In the memo, the IG detailed “repeated examples of poor contract file administration.” For instance, a recent investigation of the closeout process for contracts supporting the mission in Iraq, showed that auditors couldn’t find 33 of the 115 contract files totaling about $2.1 billion. Of the remaining 82 files, auditors said 48 contained insufficient documents required by federal law.
In another instance, the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement issued a $1 billion contract in Afghanistan that was deemed “incomplete.”
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The auditor recommended that the State Department establish a centralized system to track, maintain and retain contract files.
The department responded and said it concurred with the recommendations to address the “vulnerability” in its contracting process.
Before Linick took office last fall, the State Department had been without an inspector general position for five years—the longest IG vacancy in the government’s history, as noted in The Washington Post.
IS THERE NO END TO THIS BS we paid $400,000 for a fiber glass camel in Pakistan? OMG if someone doesn’t got to jail in State Dept. we have LOST control of our government
It was used on obama’s vacations and booze for the Secret Service.
They spend $$$$ just like the 52% of the morons that voted him in.
Y’see …… there’s a big, big sewer under Washington and all of these drains lead into it and the final drain field is in the White House. That is where a person lives, that is paid to live there, and who is supposed to be sure these things do not happen. THIS is the control he should be waving around, not control over the people who are throwing this money at him, thinking he’s going to accomplish something.
don’t forget,.they’re soooo underpaid..lol
BULL $#%&!@*ING $#%&!@*! AND IT’S ALL TAX PAYERS MONEY!!!!!!!
So when there is not enough oversight, they suffer from financial oversight? Sounds like an idiot’s explanation.
IT IS OBAMAAAAA FOULT
lets check some pockets……….
it went to pay for Hillary’s 2016 campain,lol