Posted on 10/23/2007 9:04:06 AM PDT by BGHater
The U.S. State Department is unable to account for most of $1.2 billion in funding that it gave to DynCorp International to train Iraqi police, a government report said Tuesday.
"The bottom line is that State can't account for where it went," said Glenn D. Furbish, who was involved in putting together the 20-page report for the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction (SIGIR).
The Department of State's Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) "did not have the information needed to identify what DynCorp provided under the contract or how funds were spent," the report said.
As a result, the audit agency announced it has suspended its oversight of the agency's project until INL gathers the information.
"Their records are just not detailed," Furbish said Monday in a telephone interview. "From an audit perspective, we've identified the problem; they're working to rectify the problem."
Though Iraqi police have indeed been trained and equipment has been provided under the contract, invoices and supporting paperwork submitted by DynCorp "were in disarray," the report said.
In addition, INL "had not validated the accuracy" of invoices received prior to last October, and "INL does not know specifically what it received for most of the $1.2 billion in expenditures under its DynCorp contract for the Iraqi Police Training Program."
The lack of controls "created an environment vulnerable to waste and fraud," the report said.
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Oh, ya mean the government? Sonsabitches.
Wow, the gov’t lost track of money? What were the odds. And people want them to run our health care?
“Report: Most of $1.2 billion to train Iraqi police unaccounted for”
Just an accounting error.
The Iraqi Police force has paid contracts to keep them in donuts for
the next decade.
(just joking)
Though Iraqi police have indeed been trained and equipment has been provided under the contract...
Misleading headline. Typical cnn bullsh*t reporting.
Why, no less that MGEN Paul Eaton, who was cashiered by Rumsfeld and later became an outspoken critic of SecDef and the President.
What goes around finally came around, you little POS.
Though Iraqi police have indeed been trained and equipment has been provided under the contract, invoices and supporting paperwork submitted by DynCorp "were in disarray," the report said.
CNN can go suck eggs.
Check the klintons bank accounts.
No indication in the article that the money was misspent or missappropriated.
My reading of it is that the contractors or their State Department contacts failed to fill out the correct forms, probably because the government accounting rules are so complicated, nobody could understand them.
In other words, the paperwork wasn’t up to bureaucratic standards which may not even have been set until after the fact. Or, to put it in other terms, there is a food fight within two branches of the State Department. Which one do we root for, hmm?
Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/22/AR2007102201793.html
Why doesn’t this article explain exactly who this guy Furbish is? They say a thing or two about him but do not explain exactly his relationship to this story. Is he just another private citizen popping off? The whole piece rests on Furbish’s knowledge and credibility and CNN merely dances around this central issue.
“Keep this is mind. Remember, who has written this article and what the agenda is.”
My thoughts exactly!!
Furbish did get an award of some type:
Yep. Oh, how I loathe the presstitutes...
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