Monday, January 25, 2010
Holy Cow! The Bushies hired supermen
Why else would the Bush State Dept have hired only one person to audit the $2.5 Billion contract to Dun Corp to train the Iraqi police?
Awarded in 2004 to private firm DynCorp International, the police contract is the largest awarded by the state department.See how weak the Democrats are, they need 3 people to audit the contract.
But Sigir's Stuart Bowen says in his report that weak oversight made the contract vulnerable to waste and fraud.
According to Mr Bowen's report, for years the state department had only one person in Iraq monitoring invoices during the early stages of the DynCorp contract, despite the complexity of the paperwork.
This meant many invoices were not questioned and as a result there is "no confidence in the accuracy of payments of more than $1bn to DynCorp", the report says.
The three people now employed in Iraq to oversee the work done by DynCorp are still too few, the audit concludes.
The report also suggests the state department is ill-equipped to oversee the large sums of money flowing into Afghanistan because of its lack of people and resources to handle big private sector contracts.
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