[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.
Well Find It !!! How does $6 Billion get lost? At least look for it
People need to be held accountable arrested. That is alot of $$ if it was a citizen owing taxes im sure all hell breaks out to recuperate taxes
gone to mexico middleast wanna bet
Has anyone checked Joel Olsteen’s pockets?
What does he have to do with the State Department or anything else in the government? This is a pretty weird comment Loic.
BS
Call Bush and Cheney. Three Trillion Dollars Came Up Missing in the first six months.
Cut their funding by 6.5 billion for the next 3 years.
Paul Bremer took possession of skids that held several billion dollars in raw US currency when he got to Iraq. He doesn’t know where all that loot went.
The six billions missing, went to the Muslim Brotherhood to destroy the world with their Sharia Law, the law of demons, to kill the Jews and the Christians, things are about to backfire on them, starting with Hamas…
Obama knows where it is