[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 $1 billion contract in Afghanistan that was deemed “incomplete.”
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The auditor recommended that the State Department establish a centralized system to track, maintain and retain contract files.
The department responded and said it concurred with the recommendations to address the “vulnerability” in its contracting process.
Before Linick took office last fall, the State Department had been without an inspector general position for five years—the longest IG vacancy in the government’s history, as noted in The Washington Post.
How about on vacations for certain somebodies. Can’t trace it. The hard drive crashed. 6 billion???? How do you lose 6 billion?
Obama’s, Democrats, politicians lavish lifestyle at America’s expense. Bailouts, favors for big business, unions. Insider tips, conflict of interest. If they were not millionaires when they came into office they sure as hell are now.
This is bull$#%&!@*. “Someone(s) know exactly where it went. Keep lying to the American people. You now have zero creditability as our “leaders.” Oops we lost 6,000,000,000 dollars somehow? Just asking for an uprising with all this BS & lies. Revolution here we come…
Just a drop in the bucket/tip of the iceburg. SRC.
So. That is not anything new. I could have used some for medical bills but no one offered me any
I feel you Ida. I have Multiple Sclerosis & the expenses to obtain treatment are outrageous. 5 grand/month for ONE medication. I can’t go “oopsie” losing that $, but the government can.
Hmm I know where supposedly 44 million dollars went, can you say VACATIONS!
Shoot! What the heck kind of people are running this country?????
Look in the wallets of those that work “you know where”
Thieving Government!