[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.
And I will now stand on my head n gargle pnut butter n then shall we talk about some swamp land I have for sale in Arizona? Seriously? ??
On par with Federal Gov’t treatment of Billions in hard-earned and IRS threat gathered tax money. They like being on the receiving end of the fire hose of tax dollars, not to mention printing presses. Just look at Obama’s lavish travel (for democratic party fund raisers, paid for with US Tax dollars) and of course his lavish vacations that often he and is “wife” (or as California calls it “spouse #2) spend apart. They probably also have suitcases packed with $100 bills.
they know where it went
That is bull $#%&!@*!!!
“OH” I’m sure a few of the politician’s know who got their Share,One in Particular,(Right).
6 billion and no one is in jail ? There are people who need to be shot for this.
Gosh, I stole $ 5.00 from my dad and i had my ass beat.
Maybe we should have public floggings until they start giving
names 😉
If there is an oversight problem, maybe everybody in the department should be fired, without exception
A WHOLE LOT MORE THAN THAT HAS GONE MISSING
Get rid of everyone who was responsible for distributing these funds, everyone… there has got to be at least one wistleblower in that bunch of public servants in the State Department.