[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.
Of course it true. With obummer this should not be a big surprise
Check Hilrods favorite charity (Her).
No more MONEY for obama
Obama Pelosi Reid al demoratsss got it in their pocket don’t wory is no missing it’s safe and sound just like emails from IRS
yes there is just $#%&!@*ING check the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD which is the TREASONOUS TRAITOR OBAMA’S TERRORISTS BUDDIES
just 6 billion, lol
Obama took it that’s where it at
Gee! Who was in charge at the State Dept. most of that time? Hmmmm!!!!!
What are the odds on that?
Blah blah this, blah blah that. Everyone is sooooo outraged, yet no one is willing to do anything about it. It’s the ride the storm mentality that will be the death if a nation. If you really want something different, it will have to be equal to a new revolution. There is a ruling class that we have created out of our government and it’s bipartisan. They make laws that don’t apply to them, the live in opulence while the majority struggle to get by. It’s not by the people for the people, not that it has been in a long while. The only kind of change that will make a difference is total change. Every politician is bought and paid for by corporate sponsors. Do they have your best interest in mind?