[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.
C’mon you really think we’re buying that!
Yes, I believe it. If the inept IRS can lose years worth of emails and destroy the computer that was used by Lois Lerner then they can loose billions of dollars! The liberals are capable of everything that is evil!
Either Clintons bank account, or Obama sent it to his Muslim brotherhood buddies overseas . or his Constantly wanted Vacations, 6. Billions dollars missing, Our government is ripping off the Tax payers and non of these lieing Thieves will be accountable for this , That’s why America will go bankrupted very soon, Obama will blame this on his dog and What Difference does it make now > says Hillery .
seeing as how this covers the last 6 years, a lot of the blame falls right back on Hillary. Another non-shining example of her lack of leadership.
I misplaced, $6 billion??? What is going on here??? Most of this happened on Hillary Clinton’s watch so it is time for her to tell us what happened to all this money. Isn’t it???
The SORRY BASTARDS in Washington probably gave it to our enemies.
CHECK THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS THEY TOOK MILLION DOLLAR VACATIONS ON IT AND PLAYED GOLF AND POOL
Bonuses and lavish vacations,the no SHAME PARTY they look straight into the cameras and lie right to America’s face…??????..2014 2016
damn dumb demoncrats can not do anything right
Sounds like someone was dead broke and need the money.
They don`t care