[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.
It probably went to support more Muslims that are cutting off Christians’ heads.
UGH!
Let’s backtrack. Hillary was running the State Department during those years, wasn’t she? She herself claims to have been broke when SHE and Bill left the White House. Well, I had thought they had stolen enough stuff from the White House when they left to put on Ebay and stuff, but evidently it wasn’t enough. So I wonder where the $6Billion went? Imagine how much sleaze this woman will produce when she is president.
The corruption and theft are mind boggling.
Ovomits vacations, his house in hawaii, muslim brotherhood. Sure ovomit could give you a detailed list.
Sounds familiar, the petty cash draw was raided there too.
Paul, You did see STATE DEPARTMENT on this story, right?
Hillary wanted to make sure she isn’t broke this time around?
Excuses and lies…oversight, hard drive crashes. Must I go on?
Look in BO’s pocket.