Thursday, June 12, 2008

The few..

Our Dear Embattled Leader and his evil crew have discovered the easiest way to avoid having their friends and family discovered stealing from the US government. Keep the number of agents investigating fraud at a ridiculously low level, no cops to see, no arrests to make.
Double-billing. Bribes. Kickbacks. Military contracts are big targets for serious crimes — and there aren’t nearly enough investigators to catch them all.

The Army’s contracting budget has exploded since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began — from $46 billion in 2002 to $112 billion in 2007. Yet the number of people who hunt down crooked companies and corrupt officials has stayed about the same, according to Associated Press interviews and research.

Army investigation chiefs told the AP they need a dramatic increase in agents to fight contract fraud.

In combat zones, deals can be made quickly, often with foreign companies in countries where bribes are a routine part of doing business. Yet to monitor those billions in contracts, just under 100 civilian agents are assigned to the Army Criminal Investigation Command’s procurement fraud office.
What is not mentioned is that the agents who were good at their jobs were demoted, transferred or fired, remember Bunny, so that 100 were not even the best available.

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