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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.

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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Originally posted by CHRISISALL:
Nixon. This is all his fault, that fucking bastard!

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

Sure am glad this isn't getting much attention.

Questions might be asked. And answers found, which may not be wished for by some.

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Originally posted by BIGDAMNNOBODY:
Typical response from the left.

Don't look at the most recent scandal because Bush...

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Originally posted by BIGDAMNNOBODY:
Funny how they were apoplectic when Clinton was mentioned during the last administration.

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Originally posted by Storymark:
Horsehit (the typical nobody response). If it was a comparable instance, it was perfectly fine to bring up Clinton. Problem was - you bozos seemed to think that his sex life was applicable to every goddamned thing.

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Originally posted by Storymark:
Nevermind, Im expecting a halfwit to recognize simple distinctions. Its a fool's errand.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
nobc - I'm not TRYING to do anything but present the truth.
6 Billion went missing, in the past 6 years, and there's no idea where it went.

Who was SecState for that time period ?

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
wanna compare size big boy? mine is bigger than yours.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/19/missing-iraq-money-may-be-as-muc
h-as-18-billion/

Missing Iraq money may be as much as $18 billion

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1

How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish

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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
so 6 BILLION dollars paid to US paramilitary contractors to fight the war in Iraq went missing. It was still paid to folks like Blackwater and Halliburton.
Iraq was also the "3 trillion dollar war", remember that. Amounts in BILLIONS are 1/10 of 1 % of what was spent. So if ONLY 6 Billion is missing, that means that 99.8 % of the money was spent appropriately and properly tracked.

6 BILLION dollars probably wasn't even what was spent coffee and donuts for the active duty troops in the area during those six years.

You're just trying, still, to make Obama and Hillary look bad in a pre-emptive strike aimed at 2016.
Oh, and BTW, the State Department is now responsible for the costs of the war in Iraq, not the Department of Defense? not the CIA?

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[Note how there's zero interrest in dealing w/ the issue at hand. THIS admin vanishes 6 BILLION U.S. Dollars, no biggie.

" But Bush... !!!! "

Obama has been President for 5+ years, but some only see ' Bush ' as the focal point of anything and everything that ever has gone wrong, or ever will go wrong.

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Just curious if you have a good explanation as to why you had no problem with it then, but you have a big problem with it now. Otherwise, it's hard to take your 'issues' seriously.

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6 BILLION dollars.

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Obama lubed up, you mean.

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Obama lubed up, you mean.

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No. Obama wasn't president when Cheney handed billions to private contractors.

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Every time something negative comes up, about their guys , the very first instinct is to revert to the " yeah, but " defense ???

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I hold Obama to the same standard as I held GWB. It would be nice if you showed something like a moral compass once in a while, too.

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It's not "missing", you maroon. It's going to "dark" programs in Venezuela, Tibet, Ukraine, Sudan and CAR.

WHAT??? You thought the State Department was all about diplomacy???

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Take it up w/ the those who wrote the article, at Yahoo Finance.

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1Kiki
Member since 2010.07.13 18:49.

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Take it up w/ the those who wrote the article, at Yahoo Finance.

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Oh, because Yahoo Finance is a trusted source of information?

That's kind of like believing what the State Department says about itself!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

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It's not "missing", you maroon. It's going to "dark" programs in Venezuela, Tibet, Ukraine, Sudan and CAR.

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Umm, no it isn't. Your issue was with how the title was worded. You directed your remarks toward me, as if I was the one who authored the title. I wasn't. You're wrong.

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So, when YOU make claims you can't back up, it's perfectly reasonable. But when others do it, they're just trolls.

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So, when YOU make claims you can't back up, it's perfectly reasonable. But when others do it, they're just trolls.

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I provided you with the links you asked for. It's not my fault you can't read. So stuff it.

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