[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.
I know what happened to it,it went to the Obama vacations !!!!
A DEMOCRAP HAS BEEN IN OFFICE FOR THE LAST 6 YEARS THAT’S WHAT HAPPEN TO IT
Check Hillary’s bank acct.
Check Obama’s bank account
If you have a job and you are missing money, what happen to you? Arrest them and convict them for the crimes they have done. They stole our money and should be made to pay it all back with interest.
Congress, obama, Hillary & other Countries,,,would be my Opinion..
Many People need to be fired and Hillary Jailed
that six billion dollars needs to go toward building jobs and making our economy stable and for our education for the younger generation that’s coming up America officials always hide money like that in their offshore accounts check it it’s there
Reflection of our leadership in all aspects. Someone got rich.
Just goes to show how lax they are at their job !!! !! Someone has to know something about it, it didn’t just vanish into thin air !!!