[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.
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IM SURE ITS IN THAT OBAMA FUND FOR LETS SEE THE WORLD AS LONG AS WE CAN DECEIVE THE AMERICANS. HA HA HA!!!!! WE SHOULD NEVER HAVE TO PAY ANOTHER TAX IN OUR LIFETIME,!!!!!!
Dems need to make sure they totally screw up this country. Then they’ll hand it over to the moslems!!
Yoo… obama gave it to his Brotherhood. PERIOD.
B S Don’t They Know They’ll go to Hell for Lying Etc.
THEY STEAL FROM MEDICARE AND TAKE AWAY OUR INSURANCE, THROW MILLIONS ONTO MEDICAID. I CANT WAIT TO SEE HOW THEY PAY FOR THAT. OUR CHILDREN AND THEIR CHILDREN ARE NEVER GOING TO RECOVER AND BE ABLE TO LIVE IN THIS WORLD . ALL ISEE IS COMMUNISM SHADED BY OUR ONCE ILLUSTRIOUS AND MEANINGFUL FLAG. LIBERALS ARE LIARS AND SCAM ARTIST ALONG WITH THE PROFESSORS IN THIS WORLD WHO PREY ON INNOCENT YOUNG PEOPLE TO CONVINCE THEM THERE IS NO GOD. NOW LOOK HOW THEY VOTE, AND BELIEVE WHAT THEY ARE TOLD BY LEFT WING IDIOTS. CHECK YOUR FACTS KIDS. LIFES NOT GOING TO BE SO EASY REAL SOON!!!!
Pockets
How convenient. The theives are Obama and his administration.
Who’s going on vacation now?
bull c**p