Wednesday, May 17, 2006

The Office of Personnel Management is not a "Preferred Provider"

And because of that noted military intellectual and Bushovik suck-up Stephen Cambone, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence decided not to honor their contract to provide security clearence services.
To make a long story short, GAO investigators found that the Pentagon tried to back out of the deal. They don't name him directly, but they indicate that Stephen Cambone, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, decided he didn't want to pay the 25 percent premium, and told OPM to stick it.

OPM pointed to the contract. Cambone went crying to the White House, asking for the Office of Management and Budget to intervene (in his favor, we can safely assume). OMB told the two to go back outside, play nice and figure it out on their own.

To date, there's no resolution. The system's still shut down. Both DoD and OPM are conducting separate investigations, GAO says, and they'll arrive at conclusions in a few months. Meantime, work just won't get done.
What this does is stop all new hires and contractors from getting the job done. This remains true to form for the Bushoviks. The sad part is the amount involved is about $40 million, just about what Halliburton "misplaces" on any given day in Iraq.

The Bushoviks just never learned to share.

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