[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.
It went to pay off britian from releasing Obamas birth records from Nigeria, since it was their territory then and they had all the records of births in their archives. Obamas dad had 2 sons born there. He only had 2 sons. hmmm
Ask Hillary, oh that’s right, “it happened so long ago, what difference does it make now.”
The Dept. Of Defense “lost” $2.2 billion just before 9/11 and then the camera shy plane hit the Pentagon exactly where the investigation onto the missing money was being conducted, destroying all the evidence and killing most of the investigators.
Ask Hillary? It’s in her bank account
fraud
ask Obama he knows where it is.
baghad
oh its ok they will just print more with everything this administration is doing and has done there isn’t one soul being held accountable for any of this do we really need a congress that won’t do their jobs and that is in bed with this administration everyone in DC needs the boot and they needed the boot five years ago yet there they sit getting paidto screw over the tax payer I say the people in this country needs to rise up and over throw this lawless government and fluuse um
IT WENT INTO THE POCKETS LIKE REID, HILLARY, MUSLAM BROTHERHOOD THAT SENDING IT TO HELP OBAMAS BROTHERS HAMAS..
Can’t ask the IRS..Hard drive Issues !!!