[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 and Bill’s off shore accounts, there is where you’ll find the money.
IT CAN BE .AND SHOULD BE. IT’S REALLY EASY . I WOULD SAY A 10 YEAR OLD COULD DO, BETTER THEN ANY ONE IN DC.
It wasn’t lost, it was stolen by the people in our Government
It’s not missing it’s been spent.
I bet it would be easy to find out where it went if the Republican were the head of the State Dept. All these gifts to thr terrorists from their brother would account for the missing funds but then common sense gave me this info. It don’t do any good to put them on the stand because they will only plead the 5th or will come up with the famous statement the Democratic Party uses, “I don’t recall that or I can’t remember.” There has to be a change so that honesty is apparent. GD
check all of their pockets, criminals all of them. I have been saying for almost 40 years I can’t believe how corrupt Washington is and no one believed me. Now we are paying for no one giving a rats ass.
Does anyone remember who was in charge of the State Dept when this happened?
OBAMA is probably using it to fund the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and all the Vermin that want to infiltrate the USA. He always finds the funds for HIS PEOPLE!!
Didn’t Hillary give that to Hamas in the Gaza Strip?
How long will Congress delay in investigating and hold those responsible accountable for these horrid actions????