State Dept. inspector general: More evidence of rampant mismanagement under Hillary Clinton

The State Department's Office of Inspector General has released another “management alert” detailing rampant mismanagement within the agency, much of it during Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's tenure.

The inspector general’s latest “management alert” — the third released by the agency's internal watchdog in a little over a year — warns that the State Department’s management and oversight of grants has become a serious financial liability.

“The management and oversight of grants poses heightened financial risk to the Department of State,” Inspector General Steve A. Linick said in a report dated Sept. 26 but released Sept. 30.

Linick became the agency’s inspector general in September 2013, ending a vacancy that had lasted nearly six years.

After Linick assumed the role, he almost immediately issued two "management alerts." The latest alert in September marks the third of its kind in the IG’s history. Each alert issued by Linick has related to issues that festered and went unaddressed during Hillary Clinton’s tenure.

The State Department’s grant program spends more than $1 billion annually, and this amount will likely continue to spiral out of control due to the fact that the program has terrible management, the IG reported.

“In FY 2012, the Department obligated more than $1.6 billion for approximately 14,000 grants and cooperative agreements worldwide,” Linick reported. “The Office of Inspector General … and other oversight agencies have identified a number of significant deficiencies in the grant-management process.

“Audits conducted by OIG have reported similar deficiencies, including insufficient oversight caused by too few staff managing too many grants, insufficient training of grant officials, and inadequate documentation and closeout of grant activities,” he added.

Oddly, the State Department has made it a habit to outsource the job of awarding grants to contractors in many overseas locations.

"GAO has also reported on the Department’s grant workforce shortage and criticized the over-reliance on contractor employees to oversee grants in Iraq and Afghanistan, which it concluded could lead to conflicts of interest and the potential for loss of government control and accountability for mission-related policy, as well as waste, fraud, and abuse,” the report said.

Unfortunately, the grants issue is not exactly new: The Inspector General's office identified this problem back in 2008, shortly before President Obama was inaugurated. Even more unfortunate is the fact that little or no effort has been spent on fixing the issue since.

In response to the agency’s failings in this area, the IG suggested that the agency take "immediate action" to fix its "unacceptable lack of internal control" in regard to the grants program, which exposes the agency to "significant financial risk.”

“The Department should take immediate action to ensure that adequate numbers of properly trained [Grants Officers] and [Grants Officer Representatives] are assigned, required documentation is maintained in grant files, and expired grants are closed out in a timely manner. The failure to maintain appropriate oversight over grants results in an unacceptable lack of internal control and exposes the Department to significant financial risk,” the report reads.

Failure to address the department's grant management, the IG argued, would of course open the door to corruption and fraud.

“These conditions could lead to the misuse or misappropriation of grant funds, failure to meet grant program objectives, or the inability to use unobligated grant funds before they expire,” the report noted. “Furthermore, the lack of documentation impairs OIG oversight of Department programs and operations that administer or finance grants, and it creates conditions conducive to fraud, where corrupt individuals may attempt to conceal evidence of illicit behavior by omitting key documents from grant files.”

Billy Boy got a hundred million dollars while Hillary controlled the State Dept checkbook......monies that were meant for Haiti (the place where the Clintons spent their honeymoon).

BETTER ADD THIS IN, TOO News reports say the State Department announced it has "no idea" what happened to $6 billion used to pay its contractors..... an earlier State Dept “management alert” warned “significant financial risk and a lack of internal controlhas led to billions of unaccounted dollars over the last six years....under Hillary's watch as SoS.

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Now we know how the "dead broke " clintons got their geedy hans on billions of dollars. Being president has an astouding good monetary return....that's why Hillary wants back in.

Hundreds of millions flow into the Clintons three tax-exempt foundations which the Clintons morphed into hundreds of separate fund-raising machines.

The Clintons calculatedly morphed into the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Family Foundation....to give it more fund-raising capabilities. Earlier, a NYT's expose chronicled the shady financing of the tax-exempt Clinton Global Initiative foundation.

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The HILL.COM REPORTED: Bill and Hillary Clinton raised $2-3 billion in the two decades they’ve been prominent on the national stage, according to the WSJ.

The Journal tallied the Clintons’ speaking fees, fundraising for their foundation and the sums raised for Bill Clinton’s two presidential campaigns for the DNC while he was in office and for Hillary Clinton’s Senate and presidential campaigns.

Between $1.3-2 billion came from U.S. companies and industry sources, making up at least 75 percent of the sum — more than the 60 percent industry sources contributed to the two Bushes’ political operations.

The Journal reports that if Hillary Clinton runs for president in 2016, as expected, she could return such donors to the Democratic Party, a source of concern for Republican fundraisers as they gear up for what’s expected to be the most expensive presidential election in history.

Overall, the Clintons’ political operations raised $1.2 billion, their nonprofit "foundation" drew between $750 million and $1.7 billion and they made about $100 million in speaking fees. --SNIP--

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“Linick became the agency’s inspector general in September 2013, ending a vacancy that had lasted nearly six years.”

That would be since 2007 when the Democrats took the Congress.

“The State Department’s grant program spends more than $1 billion annually, and this amount will likely continue to spiral out of control due to the fact that the program has terrible management, the IG reported.”

“Terrible management” equals Democrats in charge skimming money for the party, and for outrageous Loyalty salaries. Democrats buy everybody they can.

“Oddly, the State Department has made it a habit to outsource the job of awarding grants to contractors in many overseas locations.”

“GAO has also reported on the Department’s grant workforce shortage and criticized the over-reliance on contractor employees to oversee grants in Iraq and Afghanistan, which it concluded could lead to conflicts of interest and the potential for loss of government control and accountability for mission-related policy, as well as waste, fraud, and abuse,” the report said.”

Those would be Democrat contractors. More skimming to the party, and approved Democrat embezzlement.

“Unfortunately, the grants issue is not exactly new: The Inspector General’s office identified this problem back in 2008, shortly before President Obama was inaugurated. Even more unfortunate is the fact that little or no effort has been spent on fixing the issue since.”

Democrats took the reins of Congress, thus the reins of unfettered power to set up, and administer corruption back in 2007, and with their associates of the media complicit in the cover up of their illicit activities.

““Furthermore, the lack of documentation impairs OIG oversight of Department programs and operations that administer or finance grants, and it creates conditions conducive to fraud, where corrupt individuals may attempt to conceal evidence of illicit behavior by omitting key documents from grant files.””

Standard Democrat Operational Procedure.

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