Hillary Clinton is about to be put on defense once again. Now, the “mismanagement” of $6 billion in contracts has been discovered during her tenure as secretary of state.
Non-profit government watchdog Cause of Action Institute (CofA) filed a Freedom of Information Act request Friday for records related to a March 2014 management alert issued by the department’s Inspector General (IG).
“The total value of the contracts the [IG] reviewed exceeded $6 billion,” the CofA’s FOIA request said. “Many of these cases arose during the tenure of Secretary Hillary Clinton.” Clinton was the country’s top diplomat from January 2009 to February 2013.
The IG alert that unveiled the mismanagement was based on three investigations and two contract-related audits.
The alert revealed that State Department officials lost contract files and maintained incomplete contract files, thus exposing taxpayers “to substantial financial losses.” Federal law and State Department policy requires maintenance of all files required to document a government procurement from start to finish.
In a blistering summary, the IG alert said such failures create “conditions conducive to fraud, as corrupt individuals may attempt to conceal evidence of illicit behavior by omitting key documents from the contract file.
Lying to the government and hiding the evidence? Seems pretty standard for Mrs. Clinton. The better question might not be to ask whether Clinton defrauded the government, but who benefitted from the corruption.
Source: Daily Caller
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She’ll end up falling down the stairs again soon or later