While reading remember that this happened in 2008 under sHrillary!
...I was visiting the U.S. Embassy when the Econ Chief said something that virtually knocked me over. He said we were very good stewards of American taxpayer money and that their vendor wasn’t the best solution for all USAID cases. USAID monies do go directly to the foreign governments but are managed through his office. But because of what we were doing and how we were going about it, he could bypass the U.S. State Department’s goods and services vendor and drop USAID funds directly into the airport’s operational account for the things we needed at the airport.
While my airport manager was ecstatic, I was dumbfounded. The Econ Chief, obviously unwittingly, was articulating how freely U.S. foreign aid can be handled by U.S. Embassies. In our case, once those funds were in the airport’s operational account, they could be used for other things unrelated to airport operations...
Very well written and funny book.... Monrovia Mon Amour: A Visit to Liberia by Theodore Dalyrimple.
I found out a bit about the USAID oversight process during Obama. They hired corrupt companies filled with morons who had no idea where the money really ends up. The other thing I noticed was that the companies were hotbeds of Islamism.