[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.
W T F ??????? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN ” OUR CAPITOL ???? , ITS TIME THAT ” WE THE PEOPLE ” FORCE EVERY DAMN ONE OF THEM OUT IMEADIATLY ( NO PAY , NO PERKS , AND NO BENEFITS – SOUNDS LIKE THE MORONS HAVE ALREADY STOLEN THAT AMOUT FROM US ) AND APPOINT NEW PEOPLE THAT ARE MORE COMPETANT , AND THAT WILL WORK FOR US
Liars, thiefs, what next?
My common sense thinking says that one of our so-called congressmen/woman or senators probably used it for their own selfish needs!! This is certainly ridiculous when those greedy people in Washington expect us to keep our “houses in order”, and they don’t even do the same thing with our hard-earned tax dollars!!! I say it is high time to clean house out completely!!! ( I mean get everyone out of a job in Washington D.C.!! This is big time CORRUPTION!!
Hey Hilda, obama is the MOST corrupt of them all— the money is in two places, obamas pocket, and hillerys campaign fund!!!
News Flash Chinese Banks report highest profits since Nixon visit.
HOW MANY OF YOU C**P EATERS STOLE IT. STAND YOUR GROUND PEOPLE THEY ARE NOT GOING TO WIN THIS HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH OBAMA .
Bull they know where it went into their pockets
HOW CAN THEY JUST FORGET to make sure someone is watching Billions of dollars for 6 yrs. how long has obummer and Holder Hillary been looking out for us? not having a I.G. in position for 5 yrs did the State Dept. just forget to appoint an I.G. HMMM BS
BET IT WENT IN OBAMA AND HIS BUDDIES POCKETS
A billion here, a billion there y’know small change like that is hard to keep track of (said no one ever except the State Dept.)