[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.
as black men and UFOs, never know anything
Maybe Hillary and Bill were so “dead broke” that they had to put their hands into the State Department til……If they had been working for a private company they would be in jail….but they can steal from the public all they want and it doesn’t even get mentioned in the liberal biased media. Need to check the Pelosi, Reid and Obama bank accounts and see if they went up a few millions in deposits….off shore accounts for every Washington D.C. government employee….every one.
Lock em all up……..see if that improves their collective memory!
We need to form, citizens oversight committees, that every elected or appointed official has to report and answer too, before they pass anything
I bet you would find most of it in that Clinton Foundation if they checked….
Hey Clinton, where is the money?
Well Hillary was dead broke, ask if any of the 200 million she has now belongs to us
hilabeast where is the money sure never spent it at Benghazi
One way to steal $6 Billion Dollars.I don’t know what happen to it.Where the a cop when you need one.
yep, Hillary is no longer broke!