$1.2 Billion missing in Dyncorp contract in Iraq. So guess what company is slated to replace Blackwater?
posted by
Wally
6:32 AM
At least they weren't going around shooting people
Condi and George have more in common every time you look at them. This time we find yet another example of complete lack of oversight by the State Department over a private contractor in Iraq. Dyncorp is $1.2 Billion dollars richer, and nobody knows where the money went.
Just as the State Department is trying to work its way clear of its Blackwater troubles, a scathing federal audit released Tuesday exposes a glaring lapse in oversight of another federal contractor in Iraq, DynCorp. DynCorp was supposed to train and equip Iraqi police, but the report says the State Department doesn't know how most of the money in the billion-plus-dollar program was spent.
The State Department "does not know specifically what it received for most of the $1.2 billion in expenditures under its DynCorp contract for the Iraqi Police Training Program," the audit says. The federal watchdogs, with the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, or SIGIR, said that they even had to suspend their audit because there wasn't enough data to check the books, which were in "disarray." Read that again. The books are so screwed up they stopped the audit. That's not to say they cancelled the contract, of course. They just threw up their hands and said "screw it, we have no idea where the money went" and stopped looking.
But with invoices paid without being checked, and with no one tracking what they were for, auditors say it's impossible to determine what money was spent on. The State Department admits that it was unable to reconcile the books for the entire period of February 2004 to October 2006 but says since then it has made tremendous improvements. A spokesperson disputes that "most" of the $1.2 billion was not accounted for and suggests it should be "some" rather than "most." The spokesperson said that "INL is committed to considerable improvement. We've already made considerable staffing and process changes to improve our contract oversight." Well la-dee-frikking-da, they "already" made staffing and process changes. "Already"?! It's been 4 frikking years. What the hell do they mean "already"? But at least it's nice to hear that, according to Condi's ever so trustworthy and honest State Department, it's only "some" and not "most" of the money that went missing. Based on the use of the English language they've "already" demonstrated, I wonder what they mean by "some" and not "most".
And how the hell does an entire 2 1/2 years of payments go missing, with no way to reconcile where the money went? Try that with your taxes for the next couple years and see how understanding the IRS is about it.
If the Bush administration's response to Dyncorp is any indication, they'll end up giving you even more money. Yes, Dyncorp is slated to replace Blackwater when they pull are kicked out of Iraq.
When the Republicans start whining about taxes like they love to do, the State Department and Bush's private war profiteers might be a nice place to start. Before they start crying about "welfare moms" and having to pay for health care for kids that are slightly above dirt poor, all I can say is, I want my $1.2 Billion back, bitches.
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