Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Fraud as the official policy of the Department
Or so it would seem from this report in the WaPo today.
Auditors at an oversight agency of the Pentagon were pressured by supervisors to skew their reports on a major defense contractor's work, hiding wrongdoing and charges of overbilling, according to an 80-page report from the Government Accountability Office.But have no fear, the fearless defector Joe "Sherlock" Lieberschmuck and his faithful sidekick, Susan Collins are deep into the investigation and will move heaven and earth to insure that no embarrassment is suffered by the administration.
The Defense Contract Audit Agency, which is charged with overseeing contractors for the Defense Department, made an upfront agreement with "a major aerospace company" to limit the scope of work and basis for an audit, the report said.
When the contractor, who is not named in the report, objected to the draft findings of the DCAA audit, managers at the audit agency assigned a new supervisor to the case and threatened the senior auditor with personnel action if "he did not delete findings from the report and change the draft audit opinion to adequate," according to the GAO report.
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