[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 $1 billion contract in Afghanistan that was deemed “incomplete.”
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The auditor recommended that the State Department establish a centralized system to track, maintain and retain contract files.
The department responded and said it concurred with the recommendations to address the “vulnerability” in its contracting process.
Before Linick took office last fall, the State Department had been without an inspector general position for five years—the longest IG vacancy in the government’s history, as noted in The Washington Post.
Check Hillary out she was broke and needed easy money.
Cut the State Dept. budget by twice that amount!
The Bible says to whom much is given, much is required. Don’t give them more. As far as the misappropriated funds, check several of the terrorist groups using the latest weapons.
Bet they spent it recruiting illegals
and now our illustrious government wants 3.7B$ — I don’t think so!!!!
Everyone in gov spends my tax dollars without answering to anyone…it has to stop…hey, obama…I want a million dollars to secure my home borders from all gov agencies trying to invade my constitutional rights
Paid all these illegal aliens to cross our border it looks like and it also went as bonuses to the IRS, VA dept. heads, fast and ferious, etc. you get the picture. Big government has never worked and never will. Navy retired.
Hillary? Were is the money?
that aint hard to believe
Who got richer over the last 5 years? Hillary, Obama, Holder??