http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/file_on_4/42
Almost $9bn (£4.7bn) of Iraqi oil revenue is missing from a fund set up to reconstruct the country.
The BBC's File On 4 programme has learnt that out of over $20bn raised in oil revenues during US-led rule, the use of $8.8bn is unaccounted for.
US government auditors criticise the Coalition Provisional Authority for failing to manage the money properly.
In one case, auditors say the key to a safe holding millions of dollars was kept in an open backpack in an office.
"There was insufficient internal control to assure that money was spent for the benefit of the Iraqis, as the UN Security Council resolution mandated," said the auditors' chief of staff, Ms Ginger Cruz.
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Hay those pace makers are freaking expensive!
and good old uncle dick needs that money to buy new pace makers!
any way what are you going to do abou it?
complain to the president who now has a MANDATE!!!
does he know what a mandate is?
Full Version: Iraq reconstruction funds missing
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This story was first reported weeks ago. Where is the media? Faux News screams bloody murder over the Oil for Food scandal but has yet to mention this travesty. L. Paul Bremer has disavowed this audit report as not meeting "the standards that Americans have come to expect of the Inspector General." but has not denied that there is money missing. The Defense Department has said it rejects the audit on the grounds that it does not accept the "sweeping and unqualified conclusion" of the report, but also did not deny that there was $9 billion missing. When are heads going to roll?
Hey, what do you expect? We have the best accountants money can buy and they produced Enron.
This was out before the elections but just hit our local paper yesterday. Much of the information that came out right before the election had been out there before the war. If you aren't being pro active in your search for the truth, you don't have a clue what is going on. It speaks volumes about the state of our MSM. 
Today, the senate democrats held a hearing on this corruption in Iraq because republican leadership won't investigate it. The hearing is re-airing now on C-span 1.
Write or call your represenatives: tell them to do their job and put this on their agenda! Quit wasting taxpayer money.
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IRAQ: Forget the UN, the US Occupation Regime Helped Itself to $8.8 Billion
Republican senators who have mauled the United Nations in its handling Iraqi oil revenues went strangely quiet over the news that the Coalition Provisional Authority saw $8.8 billion go absent without leave in just 14 months. It is 55,000 times as much as Mr Sevan is alleged to have been paid.
by George Monbiot, Guardian Unlimited
February 8th, 2005
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11840
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IRAQ: Contractors Received Millions of Dollars in 'Wild West" Cash Payments
U.S. officials in postwar Iraq paid a contractor by stuffing $2 million worth of crisp bills into his gunnysack and routinely made cash payments around Baghdad from a pickup truck, a former official with the U.S. occupation government says.
by Larry Margasak, Associated Press
February 13th, 2005
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11841
Write or call your represenatives: tell them to do their job and put this on their agenda! Quit wasting taxpayer money.
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IRAQ: Forget the UN, the US Occupation Regime Helped Itself to $8.8 Billion
Republican senators who have mauled the United Nations in its handling Iraqi oil revenues went strangely quiet over the news that the Coalition Provisional Authority saw $8.8 billion go absent without leave in just 14 months. It is 55,000 times as much as Mr Sevan is alleged to have been paid.
by George Monbiot, Guardian Unlimited
February 8th, 2005
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11840
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IRAQ: Contractors Received Millions of Dollars in 'Wild West" Cash Payments
U.S. officials in postwar Iraq paid a contractor by stuffing $2 million worth of crisp bills into his gunnysack and routinely made cash payments around Baghdad from a pickup truck, a former official with the U.S. occupation government says.
by Larry Margasak, Associated Press
February 13th, 2005
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11841
Bush promised the Polish president $400 million last week for being a coalition member. We already gave money to Poland in 2003. we bought Polish made automatic rifles for Iraq when all those weapons stockpiles went unprotected.
Bush also wants to give more bribes to the remaining coalition countries, e.g. Bulgaria.
The defense budget had military funds for many countries that are not democratic. The State department has budgeted development funds for similar countries.
So much for freedom and liberty....Hippocrites!
Bush also wants to give more bribes to the remaining coalition countries, e.g. Bulgaria.
The defense budget had military funds for many countries that are not democratic. The State department has budgeted development funds for similar countries.
So much for freedom and liberty....Hippocrites!
I can't believe Bremmer was rewarded with the medal of Freedom, for his wretched, fraudulent handling of BOTH US tax dollars,and Iraq's oil funds.
Bremmer couldn't find his own a$$ with both hands!
Bremmer couldn't find his own a$$ with both hands!
Iraq Contractor Claims Immunity From Fraud Laws
Seized Oil Assets Paid For Offshore Overbilling
by David Phinney, Special to CorpWatch
December 23rd, 2004
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11763
The Virginia courtroom, just outside of Washington DC, was set to try what should have been a simple matter of whether or not Custer Battles, an upstart security company, based in McLean, Virginia, had defrauded its customers by as much as $50 million. By the end of the hearing last week, a perplexed judge was asked to decide whether the United States government controlled Iraq's oil revenues that were used to pay the company.....
Ellis will hear closing arguments on the motion to dismiss the Custer Battles dispute on February 10, but the answer to whether or not the CPA should be held accountable is sure to have lasting consequences far beyond the case itself. At stake are numerous other lawsuits that accuse other companies of overcharging, kickbacks, bribes and poor performance.
Seized Oil Assets Paid For Offshore Overbilling
by David Phinney, Special to CorpWatch
December 23rd, 2004
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11763
The Virginia courtroom, just outside of Washington DC, was set to try what should have been a simple matter of whether or not Custer Battles, an upstart security company, based in McLean, Virginia, had defrauded its customers by as much as $50 million. By the end of the hearing last week, a perplexed judge was asked to decide whether the United States government controlled Iraq's oil revenues that were used to pay the company.....
Ellis will hear closing arguments on the motion to dismiss the Custer Battles dispute on February 10, but the answer to whether or not the CPA should be held accountable is sure to have lasting consequences far beyond the case itself. At stake are numerous other lawsuits that accuse other companies of overcharging, kickbacks, bribes and poor performance.
IRAQ: Audit Slams U.S. Handling of Iraqi Funds
The Coalition Provisional Authority may have paid salaries for thousands of nonexistent employees in Iraqi ministries, issued unauthorized multimillion-dollar contracts and provided little oversight of spending in possibly corrupt ministries, according to the report by Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction.
by T. Christian Miller, The Los Angeles Times
January 31st, 2005
WASHINGTON — The U.S.-led provisional government in charge of Iraq until last summer was unable to properly account for nearly $9 billion in Iraqi funds it was charged with safeguarding, according to a scathing audit report.....
In a letter to Bowen, former agency administrator L. Paul Bremer III blasted the findings of a draft copy, saying that the report was filled with misconceptions and inaccuracies.....
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11820
The Coalition Provisional Authority may have paid salaries for thousands of nonexistent employees in Iraqi ministries, issued unauthorized multimillion-dollar contracts and provided little oversight of spending in possibly corrupt ministries, according to the report by Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction.
by T. Christian Miller, The Los Angeles Times
January 31st, 2005
WASHINGTON — The U.S.-led provisional government in charge of Iraq until last summer was unable to properly account for nearly $9 billion in Iraqi funds it was charged with safeguarding, according to a scathing audit report.....
In a letter to Bowen, former agency administrator L. Paul Bremer III blasted the findings of a draft copy, saying that the report was filled with misconceptions and inaccuracies.....
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11820
IRAQ: Reconstruction Efforts 'Rife with Corruption and Waste'
A new study is particularly critical of donors' tendency to use large western contractors to repair infrastructure damaged in the war, importing foreign personnel and equipment at a huge cost. In Iraq, that policy has proved disastrous, one of the authors said.
by Thomas Catan and Jimmy Burns, The Financial Times
January 24th, 2005
The authors of a new report on post-conflict reconstruction have warned that efforts to rebuild Iraq have so far proved wasteful, ineffective and rife with corruption.
The report, to be released in London today, was funded by the United Nations Development Programme and draws on examples of previous post-war efforts to rebuild countries including Bosnia, Lebanon and Sierra Leone....
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11805
A new study is particularly critical of donors' tendency to use large western contractors to repair infrastructure damaged in the war, importing foreign personnel and equipment at a huge cost. In Iraq, that policy has proved disastrous, one of the authors said.
by Thomas Catan and Jimmy Burns, The Financial Times
January 24th, 2005
The authors of a new report on post-conflict reconstruction have warned that efforts to rebuild Iraq have so far proved wasteful, ineffective and rife with corruption.
The report, to be released in London today, was funded by the United Nations Development Programme and draws on examples of previous post-war efforts to rebuild countries including Bosnia, Lebanon and Sierra Leone....
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11805
US: Accusations by Mobile firm spark probe of Security Firm's Iraq contracts
In placing Custer Battles on the list of contractors forbidden to receive federal contracts, the U.S. Air Force cited evidence of "fraud, antitrust violations, embezzlement, theft, forgery, bribery, false statements or any other offenses indicating a lack of business integrity."
by Eddie Curran, Mobile Register
November 8th, 2004
Spearheaded by a former CIA agent and a retired Army Ranger, Custer Battles LLC arrived in Iraq with more moxie than money, and the young firm's success in winning millions of dollars in contracts to provide security at the Baghdad airport captivated the national press.
Now the Virginia-based international security firm that has claimed to have employed more than 1,300 people in Iraq finds itself in a public relations meltdown.
Accusations contained in a pair of lawsuits by Mobile-based disaster services firm DRC Inc., and its manager and co-owner, Bob Isakson, have put Custer Battles in the crosshairs of a federal investigation into its billings to the Coalition Provisional Authority, and in the pages of some of the country's leading newspapers.
Those lawsuits, as well as company memos made public by DRC's attorneys, describe a host of schemes said to have been employed by Custer Battles to defraud the coalition authority. ....
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11648
In placing Custer Battles on the list of contractors forbidden to receive federal contracts, the U.S. Air Force cited evidence of "fraud, antitrust violations, embezzlement, theft, forgery, bribery, false statements or any other offenses indicating a lack of business integrity."
by Eddie Curran, Mobile Register
November 8th, 2004
Spearheaded by a former CIA agent and a retired Army Ranger, Custer Battles LLC arrived in Iraq with more moxie than money, and the young firm's success in winning millions of dollars in contracts to provide security at the Baghdad airport captivated the national press.
Now the Virginia-based international security firm that has claimed to have employed more than 1,300 people in Iraq finds itself in a public relations meltdown.
Accusations contained in a pair of lawsuits by Mobile-based disaster services firm DRC Inc., and its manager and co-owner, Bob Isakson, have put Custer Battles in the crosshairs of a federal investigation into its billings to the Coalition Provisional Authority, and in the pages of some of the country's leading newspapers.
Those lawsuits, as well as company memos made public by DRC's attorneys, describe a host of schemes said to have been employed by Custer Battles to defraud the coalition authority. ....
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11648
IRAQ: Memos Warned of Billing Fraud by Custer Battles in Iraq
The memorandums, written primarily by two company managers, charged that the security firm repeatedly billed the occupation authorities for nonexistent services or at grossly inflated prices.
by Erik Eckholm, The New York Times
October 23rd, 2004
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11606
The memorandums, written primarily by two company managers, charged that the security firm repeatedly billed the occupation authorities for nonexistent services or at grossly inflated prices.
by Erik Eckholm, The New York Times
October 23rd, 2004
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11606
Iraq:10 U.S. Contractors Penalized
by Matt Kelley, Associated Press
April 26th, 2004
WASHINGTON - Ten companies with billions of dollars in U.S. contracts for Iraq reconstruction have paid more than $300 million in penalties since 2000 to resolve allegations of bid rigging, fraud, delivery of faulty military parts and environmental damage.
The United States is paying more than $780 million to one British firm that was convicted of fraud on three federal construction projects and banned from U.S. government work during 2002, according to an Associated Press review of government documents.
A Virginia company convicted of rigging bids for American-funded projects in Egypt also has been awarded Iraq contracts worth hundreds of millions. And a third firm found guilty of environmental violations and bid rigging won U.S. Army approval for a subcontract to clean up an Iraqi harbor.
Seven other companies with Iraq reconstruction contracts have agreed to pay financial penalties without admitting wrongdoing. Together, the 10 companies have paid to resolve 30 alleged violations in the past four years. Six paid penalties more than once. But the companies have been awarded $7 billion in Iraq reconstruction contracts. ...
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11268
by Matt Kelley, Associated Press
April 26th, 2004
WASHINGTON - Ten companies with billions of dollars in U.S. contracts for Iraq reconstruction have paid more than $300 million in penalties since 2000 to resolve allegations of bid rigging, fraud, delivery of faulty military parts and environmental damage.
The United States is paying more than $780 million to one British firm that was convicted of fraud on three federal construction projects and banned from U.S. government work during 2002, according to an Associated Press review of government documents.
A Virginia company convicted of rigging bids for American-funded projects in Egypt also has been awarded Iraq contracts worth hundreds of millions. And a third firm found guilty of environmental violations and bid rigging won U.S. Army approval for a subcontract to clean up an Iraqi harbor.
Seven other companies with Iraq reconstruction contracts have agreed to pay financial penalties without admitting wrongdoing. Together, the 10 companies have paid to resolve 30 alleged violations in the past four years. Six paid penalties more than once. But the companies have been awarded $7 billion in Iraq reconstruction contracts. ...
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11268
Iraq: Pentagon Opens Criminal Inquiry of Halliburton
by Richard A. Oppel Jr., New York Times
February 24th, 2004
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 Pentagon officials said Monday night that they have opened a criminal fraud investigation of Halliburton, the giant Texas oil-services concern, in an inquiry that will examine "potential overpricing" of fuel taken into Iraq by one of the company's subcontractors.
A Pentagon official said the investigation is focused on the Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root, which has drawn fire from critics in Congress since the disclosure in December that Pentagon auditors had found evidence that it had allowed a Kuwaiti subcontractor, Altanmia, to overcharge the government by at least $61 million for fuel shipped into Iraq from Kuwait.....
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=10148
by Richard A. Oppel Jr., New York Times
February 24th, 2004
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 Pentagon officials said Monday night that they have opened a criminal fraud investigation of Halliburton, the giant Texas oil-services concern, in an inquiry that will examine "potential overpricing" of fuel taken into Iraq by one of the company's subcontractors.
A Pentagon official said the investigation is focused on the Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root, which has drawn fire from critics in Congress since the disclosure in December that Pentagon auditors had found evidence that it had allowed a Kuwaiti subcontractor, Altanmia, to overcharge the government by at least $61 million for fuel shipped into Iraq from Kuwait.....
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=10148
IRAQ: Only a Small Part of Funds to Help Rebuild Iraq
A new report paints a picture of lawlessness and corruption hampering a reconstruction program that once promised Iraqis a significant boost.
by Jonathan Weisman, The Washington Post
November 1st, 2004
After more than a year of difficulties, the pace of contracting for Iraqi reconstruction projects picked up substantially over the past three months, but U.S. authorities have still spent only a fraction of the rebuilding money allocated by Congress, according to a new report.
The inspector general monitoring Iraq's rebuilding also said in his latest quarterly report, released today, that reconstruction aid promised by international lenders and other countries has only trickled into Iraq. Of the $13.5 billion pledged at a donors conference last year in Madrid, contributions and firm commitments total $2.7 billion, the report said.
Inspector General Stuart W. Bowen paints a picture of lawlessness and corruption hampering a reconstruction program that once promised Iraqis a significant boost from their pre-war standards of living. Allegations have surfaced of large-scale embezzlement, robberies perpetrated by Iraqi police, even payoffs to U.S. military personnel who aided in theft.....
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11631
A new report paints a picture of lawlessness and corruption hampering a reconstruction program that once promised Iraqis a significant boost.
by Jonathan Weisman, The Washington Post
November 1st, 2004
After more than a year of difficulties, the pace of contracting for Iraqi reconstruction projects picked up substantially over the past three months, but U.S. authorities have still spent only a fraction of the rebuilding money allocated by Congress, according to a new report.
The inspector general monitoring Iraq's rebuilding also said in his latest quarterly report, released today, that reconstruction aid promised by international lenders and other countries has only trickled into Iraq. Of the $13.5 billion pledged at a donors conference last year in Madrid, contributions and firm commitments total $2.7 billion, the report said.
Inspector General Stuart W. Bowen paints a picture of lawlessness and corruption hampering a reconstruction program that once promised Iraqis a significant boost from their pre-war standards of living. Allegations have surfaced of large-scale embezzlement, robberies perpetrated by Iraqi police, even payoffs to U.S. military personnel who aided in theft.....
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11631
IRAQ: Audit Can't Find Billions
Roughly half of the $5 billion in Iraq reconstruction funds disbursed by the U.S. government in the first half of this year cannot be accounted for.
by Bryan Bender, The Boston Globe
October 16th, 2004
WASHINGTON -- About half of the roughly $5 billion in Iraq reconstruction funds disbursed by the US government in the first half of this year cannot be accounted for, according to an audit commissioned by the United Nations, which could not find records for numerous rebuilding projects and other payments.
One chunk of the money -- $1.4 billion -- was deposited into a local bank by Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq but could be tracked no further: The auditors reported that they were shown a deposit slip but could find no additional records to explain how the money was used or to prove that it remains in the bank.
Auditors also said they could not track more than $1 billion in funds doled out by US authorities for hundreds of large and small reconstruction projects.....
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11591
Roughly half of the $5 billion in Iraq reconstruction funds disbursed by the U.S. government in the first half of this year cannot be accounted for.
by Bryan Bender, The Boston Globe
October 16th, 2004
WASHINGTON -- About half of the roughly $5 billion in Iraq reconstruction funds disbursed by the US government in the first half of this year cannot be accounted for, according to an audit commissioned by the United Nations, which could not find records for numerous rebuilding projects and other payments.
One chunk of the money -- $1.4 billion -- was deposited into a local bank by Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq but could be tracked no further: The auditors reported that they were shown a deposit slip but could find no additional records to explain how the money was used or to prove that it remains in the bank.
Auditors also said they could not track more than $1 billion in funds doled out by US authorities for hundreds of large and small reconstruction projects.....
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11591
Iraq: Siemens Lands $95M Deal
German company hired to build power station as United States moves to share reconstruction work
Reuters
November 21st, 2003
LONDON - German industrial company Siemens AG has won a $95 million deal to develop a power station in Iraq, an industry source said Friday, days after Washington vowed to share post-war reconstruction work.
The source was confirming a remark made earlier in the day by Britain's trade, investment and foreign affairs minister, Mike O'Brien, who told reporters at a London conference that Siemens had just been awarded a "substantial contract for a power station."
"Siemens won a contract to build a gas turbine...," the industry source said, adding the work was being sub-contracted by U.S. engineering and construction company Bechtel. The turbine has a generation capacity of 266 megawatts of power, the source said.
San Francisco-based Bechtel is lead contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development and has so far racked up more than $1 billion in work to rebuild the country's schools, bridges, and power and water infrastructure.
The industry source also said Siemens had already won subcontracts worth about $50 million in Iraq.....
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=9170
German company hired to build power station as United States moves to share reconstruction work
Reuters
November 21st, 2003
LONDON - German industrial company Siemens AG has won a $95 million deal to develop a power station in Iraq, an industry source said Friday, days after Washington vowed to share post-war reconstruction work.
The source was confirming a remark made earlier in the day by Britain's trade, investment and foreign affairs minister, Mike O'Brien, who told reporters at a London conference that Siemens had just been awarded a "substantial contract for a power station."
"Siemens won a contract to build a gas turbine...," the industry source said, adding the work was being sub-contracted by U.S. engineering and construction company Bechtel. The turbine has a generation capacity of 266 megawatts of power, the source said.
San Francisco-based Bechtel is lead contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development and has so far racked up more than $1 billion in work to rebuild the country's schools, bridges, and power and water infrastructure.
The industry source also said Siemens had already won subcontracts worth about $50 million in Iraq.....
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=9170
Lawmakers Told About Contract Abuse in Iraq
By Griff Witte
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 15, 2005; Page A03
A government contractor defrauded the Coalition Provisional Authority of tens of millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction funds and the Bush administration has done little to try to recover the money, an attorney for two whistle-blowers told Democratic lawmakers yesterday. ....
"I wish I could tell you that the Bush administration has done everything it could to detect and punish fraud in Iraq," Grayson said. "If I said that to you, though, I would be lying." ....
Yesterday's appearances were organized by the Democratic Policy Committee. Its chairman, Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.), said the witnesses were called in response to a recent report by the inspector general for Iraqi reconstruction that concluded that the governing authority had inadequate controls over $8.8 billion in Iraqi funds it was supposed to oversee. Former administrator L. Paul Bremer has denied those allegations. Dorgan said Democrats had attempted to get Republican colleagues to hold hearings on the issue but were unsuccessful. .....
Michael Battles and Scott K. Custer, both former U.S. Special Operations soldiers, founded the company in 2002. Battles ran unsuccessfully as the Republican candidate for Congress in Rhode Island that year.
After an interview with Custer in January 2004, agents from the Pentagon inspector general's office wrote, "Battles is very active in the Republican Party and speaks to individuals he knows at the White House almost daily, according to Custer." A White House spokesman had no immediate comment.
www.washingtonpost.com
By Griff Witte
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 15, 2005; Page A03
A government contractor defrauded the Coalition Provisional Authority of tens of millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction funds and the Bush administration has done little to try to recover the money, an attorney for two whistle-blowers told Democratic lawmakers yesterday. ....
"I wish I could tell you that the Bush administration has done everything it could to detect and punish fraud in Iraq," Grayson said. "If I said that to you, though, I would be lying." ....
Yesterday's appearances were organized by the Democratic Policy Committee. Its chairman, Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.), said the witnesses were called in response to a recent report by the inspector general for Iraqi reconstruction that concluded that the governing authority had inadequate controls over $8.8 billion in Iraqi funds it was supposed to oversee. Former administrator L. Paul Bremer has denied those allegations. Dorgan said Democrats had attempted to get Republican colleagues to hold hearings on the issue but were unsuccessful. .....
Michael Battles and Scott K. Custer, both former U.S. Special Operations soldiers, founded the company in 2002. Battles ran unsuccessfully as the Republican candidate for Congress in Rhode Island that year.
After an interview with Custer in January 2004, agents from the Pentagon inspector general's office wrote, "Battles is very active in the Republican Party and speaks to individuals he knows at the White House almost daily, according to Custer." A White House spokesman had no immediate comment.
www.washingtonpost.com
US audit exposes CPA fraud in Iraq
Friday 30 July 2004, 23:31 Makka Time, 20:31 GMT
The Paul Bremer-led CPA has lots of questions to answer
US investigators found multiple examples of fraud and abuse in millions of dollars worth of contracts to rebuild Iraq that used US taxpayer and Iraqi funds, according to an audit released on Friday.
The report to Congress by the inspector general's office of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the US occupation's administrative setup dissolved in June, said it had been involved in 69 criminal investigations, of which 42 had been closed or referred elsewhere. A further 27 are still open....
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C47...1B1657AE673.htm
Note the date and why wasn't this an issue in the election>???
Friday 30 July 2004, 23:31 Makka Time, 20:31 GMT
The Paul Bremer-led CPA has lots of questions to answer
US investigators found multiple examples of fraud and abuse in millions of dollars worth of contracts to rebuild Iraq that used US taxpayer and Iraqi funds, according to an audit released on Friday.
The report to Congress by the inspector general's office of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the US occupation's administrative setup dissolved in June, said it had been involved in 69 criminal investigations, of which 42 had been closed or referred elsewhere. A further 27 are still open....
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C47...1B1657AE673.htm
Note the date and why wasn't this an issue in the election>???
http://www.rebuilding-iraq.net/portal/page...&_schema=PORTAL
Iraq Project and Contracting Office
The mission of the Project and Contracting Office (PCO) is to serve the people of the United States and Iraq by contracting for and delivering services, supplies, and infrastructure identified within the Iraqi Relief and Reconstruction Fund (IRRF), a total $18.4 billion in resources allocated by the U.S. government and taxpaying public for the rebuilding of Iraq.
Work in Place $1.63 Billion As of: 2/09/05
Iraq Project and Contracting Office
The mission of the Project and Contracting Office (PCO) is to serve the people of the United States and Iraq by contracting for and delivering services, supplies, and infrastructure identified within the Iraqi Relief and Reconstruction Fund (IRRF), a total $18.4 billion in resources allocated by the U.S. government and taxpaying public for the rebuilding of Iraq.
Work in Place $1.63 Billion As of: 2/09/05
The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction
(formerly the Coalition Provisional Authority Office of the Inspector General)
The Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) is the successor to the Coalition Provisional Authority Office of Inspector General (CPA-IG). Under the law that created CPA-IG, the office was to terminate six months after the Coalition Provisional Authority’s dissolution, which occurred June 28, 2004. To maintain the oversight CPA-IG had established of Iraq Reconstruction programs and operations, which would otherwise expire, Congress amended the law that had created the office of the CPA-IG, re-designating it as the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.
...Under this new mandate, Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., who served as the CPA Inspector General since January 20, 2004, continues as the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, without the need for reappointment. He reports to both the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State for supervision. ...SIGIR will terminate ten months after the date on which the 80% of the IRRF has been obligated.
http://www.cpa-ig.org/index.html
(formerly the Coalition Provisional Authority Office of the Inspector General)
The Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) is the successor to the Coalition Provisional Authority Office of Inspector General (CPA-IG). Under the law that created CPA-IG, the office was to terminate six months after the Coalition Provisional Authority’s dissolution, which occurred June 28, 2004. To maintain the oversight CPA-IG had established of Iraq Reconstruction programs and operations, which would otherwise expire, Congress amended the law that had created the office of the CPA-IG, re-designating it as the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.
...Under this new mandate, Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., who served as the CPA Inspector General since January 20, 2004, continues as the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, without the need for reappointment. He reports to both the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State for supervision. ...SIGIR will terminate ten months after the date on which the 80% of the IRRF has been obligated.
http://www.cpa-ig.org/index.html
The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction
Audit Reports
SIGIR conducted audits to evaluate the effectiveness of CPA management processes and controls in areas including ministry financial controls, sources and uses of seized, donated and vested funds, security and insurance costs, as well as administration and oversight of the acquisition process.
http://www.cpa-ig.org/audit_reports.html
SIGIR Reports to Congress
http://www.cpa-ig.org/reports_congress.html
Other Reports
Reports to Congress
http://www.cpa-ig.org/reports_other.html
Audit Reports
SIGIR conducted audits to evaluate the effectiveness of CPA management processes and controls in areas including ministry financial controls, sources and uses of seized, donated and vested funds, security and insurance costs, as well as administration and oversight of the acquisition process.
http://www.cpa-ig.org/audit_reports.html
SIGIR Reports to Congress
http://www.cpa-ig.org/reports_congress.html
Other Reports
Reports to Congress
http://www.cpa-ig.org/reports_other.html
Charges of fraud in Iraq contracts
U.S. authority lost track of millions, auditor reports
T. Christian Miller, Los Angeles Times
Friday, July 30, 2004
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...MNGGS7VRH31.DTL
....Besides the more than two dozen criminal cases under investigation by the inspector general, approximately 35 others have been referred on to other U.S. agencies for further investigation, said James P. Mitchell, an inspector general spokesman.
U.S. authority lost track of millions, auditor reports
T. Christian Miller, Los Angeles Times
Friday, July 30, 2004
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...MNGGS7VRH31.DTL
....Besides the more than two dozen criminal cases under investigation by the inspector general, approximately 35 others have been referred on to other U.S. agencies for further investigation, said James P. Mitchell, an inspector general spokesman.
Published on Friday, July 30, 2004 by the Los Angeles Times
Iraq Funds Are Focus of 27 Criminal Inquiries
by T. Christian Miller
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0730-03.htm
....The Times has reported on several cases in which a small circle of former Republican administration officials had drawn scrutiny for their actions in Iraq, including a deputy undersecretary of Defense under investigation by the FBI in connection with a telecommunications contract. In another case, officials have said, a former senior U.S. advisor conducted negotiations with a family connected to Saddam Hussein to form a new Iraqi airline. ...
Many of the report's findings concern the handling of Iraqi oil revenue, which was placed into a special account called the Development Fund for Iraq. All told, more than $20 billion passed through the account, which was not subject to the same stringent contracting and accounting rules as U.S. government money.
Several former CPA officials interviewed in the past have said the development fund was seen as a way to get quick approval for reconstruction projects without the hassle of burdensome contracting regulations.
Many of the former officials have also acknowledged that they frequently suspected or were told that officials used the money to pay bribes or buy favors for allies and family members. ....
Iraq Funds Are Focus of 27 Criminal Inquiries
by T. Christian Miller
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0730-03.htm
....The Times has reported on several cases in which a small circle of former Republican administration officials had drawn scrutiny for their actions in Iraq, including a deputy undersecretary of Defense under investigation by the FBI in connection with a telecommunications contract. In another case, officials have said, a former senior U.S. advisor conducted negotiations with a family connected to Saddam Hussein to form a new Iraqi airline. ...
Many of the report's findings concern the handling of Iraqi oil revenue, which was placed into a special account called the Development Fund for Iraq. All told, more than $20 billion passed through the account, which was not subject to the same stringent contracting and accounting rules as U.S. government money.
Several former CPA officials interviewed in the past have said the development fund was seen as a way to get quick approval for reconstruction projects without the hassle of burdensome contracting regulations.
Many of the former officials have also acknowledged that they frequently suspected or were told that officials used the money to pay bribes or buy favors for allies and family members. ....
Business Guide for Iraq
U.S. Department of Commerce
Revised January 28, 2005
http://www.export.gov/iraq/bus_climate/bus...de_current.html
U.S. Department of Commerce
Revised January 28, 2005
http://www.export.gov/iraq/bus_climate/bus...de_current.html
Fraud and Corruption
Where has Iraq’s money gone?
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 8th February 2005
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/02/08...and-corruption-
.....Four days before Paul Volcker reported his findings about Saddam Hussein, the US Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction published a report about the Coalition Provisional Authority: the US agency which governed Iraq between April 2003 and June 2004. The Inspector General’s job is to make sure that the money the authority spent was properly accounted for. It wasn’t. In just 14 months, $8.8bn went absent without leave.(6) This is more than Mobutu Sese Seko managed to steal in 32 years of looting Zaire. It is 55,000 times as much as Mr Sevan is alleged to have been paid.
The authority, the Inspector General found, was “burdened by severe inefficiencies and poor management.”(7) This is kind. Other investigations suggest that it was also burdened by false accounting, fraud and corruption.
Last week a British adviser to the Iraqi Governing Council told the BBC’s File on Four programme that officials in the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) were demanding bribes of up to $300,000 in return for awarding contracts.(8) Iraqi money seized by US forces simply disappeared. Some $800 million was handed out to US commanders without being counted or even weighed. A further $1.4bn was flown from Baghdad to the Kurdish regional government in the town of Irbil, and has never been seen since.(9)
The CPA awarded contracts to US companies without any financial safeguards. They were issued without competition, in the form of “cost-plus” deals. This means that the companies were paid for the expenses they incurred, plus a percentage of those expenses in the form of profit. .....
What makes all this so serious is that more than half of the money the CPA was giving away did not belong to the US government but to the people of Iraq.(16) Most of it was generated by the coalition’s sales of oil. If you think the UN’s oil-for-food programme was leaky, take a look at the CPA’s oil-for-reconstruction scheme. .....
The authority was plainly breaching UN resolutions. As Christian Aid points out, the CPA’s distribution of Iraq’s money was supposed to have been subject to international oversight from the beginning.(19) But no auditors were appointed until April 2004: just two months before the CPA’s mandate ran out. Even then, they had no power to hold it to account or even to ask it to cooperate. ....
I hope that Messrs Hyde and Coleman won’t stop asking whether Iraqi oil money has been properly spent. But perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised if their agreeable silence persists.
[Senator Coleman is having another hearing today on the Oil-for food program....]
Where has Iraq’s money gone?
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 8th February 2005
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/02/08...and-corruption-
.....Four days before Paul Volcker reported his findings about Saddam Hussein, the US Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction published a report about the Coalition Provisional Authority: the US agency which governed Iraq between April 2003 and June 2004. The Inspector General’s job is to make sure that the money the authority spent was properly accounted for. It wasn’t. In just 14 months, $8.8bn went absent without leave.(6) This is more than Mobutu Sese Seko managed to steal in 32 years of looting Zaire. It is 55,000 times as much as Mr Sevan is alleged to have been paid.
The authority, the Inspector General found, was “burdened by severe inefficiencies and poor management.”(7) This is kind. Other investigations suggest that it was also burdened by false accounting, fraud and corruption.
Last week a British adviser to the Iraqi Governing Council told the BBC’s File on Four programme that officials in the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) were demanding bribes of up to $300,000 in return for awarding contracts.(8) Iraqi money seized by US forces simply disappeared. Some $800 million was handed out to US commanders without being counted or even weighed. A further $1.4bn was flown from Baghdad to the Kurdish regional government in the town of Irbil, and has never been seen since.(9)
The CPA awarded contracts to US companies without any financial safeguards. They were issued without competition, in the form of “cost-plus” deals. This means that the companies were paid for the expenses they incurred, plus a percentage of those expenses in the form of profit. .....
What makes all this so serious is that more than half of the money the CPA was giving away did not belong to the US government but to the people of Iraq.(16) Most of it was generated by the coalition’s sales of oil. If you think the UN’s oil-for-food programme was leaky, take a look at the CPA’s oil-for-reconstruction scheme. .....
The authority was plainly breaching UN resolutions. As Christian Aid points out, the CPA’s distribution of Iraq’s money was supposed to have been subject to international oversight from the beginning.(19) But no auditors were appointed until April 2004: just two months before the CPA’s mandate ran out. Even then, they had no power to hold it to account or even to ask it to cooperate. ....
I hope that Messrs Hyde and Coleman won’t stop asking whether Iraqi oil money has been properly spent. But perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised if their agreeable silence persists.
[Senator Coleman is having another hearing today on the Oil-for food program....]
Report cites fraud, abuse cases in Iraq rebuilding
By Sue Pleming, Reuters
Posted 11/1/2004 11:45 AM Updated 11/1/2004 2:16 PM [the day before the election!]
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/20...raud-iraq_x.htm
WASHINGTON — U.S. investigators this year opened more than 100 cases involving alleged abuse of some of the billions of dollars in U.S. and Iraqi funds to rebuild Iraq, an auditors' report said Monday.
The report said most allegations involved fraud, waste and abuse of funds while 40% were linked to reprisals, theft and other issues. It said 75 cases had been either closed or referred to other U.S. agencies and 38 remained open....
In addition to the CPA investigations, the FBI had at least five open and pending cases involving Iraq, with two recent ones focusing on public corruption and government fraud, the report said. It gave no details.
Last week, the Army Corps of Engineers top contracting official said she was being interviewed by the FBI after she complained about deals given to Halliburton, the Texas company run by Vice President Dick Cheney before he joined the race for the White House in 2000.
The report said the military's Defense Criminal Investigative Service also had 16 open cases involving Iraq and 22 had been closed. No details were given of those cases.
By Sue Pleming, Reuters
Posted 11/1/2004 11:45 AM Updated 11/1/2004 2:16 PM [the day before the election!]
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/20...raud-iraq_x.htm
WASHINGTON — U.S. investigators this year opened more than 100 cases involving alleged abuse of some of the billions of dollars in U.S. and Iraqi funds to rebuild Iraq, an auditors' report said Monday.
The report said most allegations involved fraud, waste and abuse of funds while 40% were linked to reprisals, theft and other issues. It said 75 cases had been either closed or referred to other U.S. agencies and 38 remained open....
In addition to the CPA investigations, the FBI had at least five open and pending cases involving Iraq, with two recent ones focusing on public corruption and government fraud, the report said. It gave no details.
Last week, the Army Corps of Engineers top contracting official said she was being interviewed by the FBI after she complained about deals given to Halliburton, the Texas company run by Vice President Dick Cheney before he joined the race for the White House in 2000.
The report said the military's Defense Criminal Investigative Service also had 16 open cases involving Iraq and 22 had been closed. No details were given of those cases.
Watchdog: Fraud in Iraq oil sales
Wednesday 15 December 2004, 23:22 Makka Time, 20:22 GMT
The auditor found an absence of control over oil extraction
A UN oversight board has found irregularities in Iraq's oil export sales under US-led authorities between May 2003 and June 2004.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E71...378B360227A.htm
Wednesday 15 December 2004, 23:22 Makka Time, 20:22 GMT
The auditor found an absence of control over oil extraction
A UN oversight board has found irregularities in Iraq's oil export sales under US-led authorities between May 2003 and June 2004.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E71...378B360227A.htm
Bush Administration blamed for funds abuse in Iraq
2/15/2005 12:00:00 PM GMT
http://www.islamonline.com/cgi-bin/news_se...service_id=6989
International reactions:
let the usa bleed. the money of the us taxpayers will find its way into the pockets of the criminal chunta reigning the usa. i wonder what will happen if the us citizens get awake when they need to pay the bill.
Jo from Germany
corrupt oil robbing baskets, neocon motthaar forkking preeeks, spread democractic values more like spread your robbing ways and lies, this guys are war criminals no difference from saddam
CHE GUEVARA from UK
and these lousy americans have the gall to complain about the oil for food scandal. i am gonna print out this page and the next time one of you lousy americans bring up the oil for food scandel, i gonna this page down your s and let you gag on it. you hyporitcal thugs, you should not throw stones if you live in glass houses.
kareema from australia
the over 200 billion of iraq reconstruction money disappeared, then the 9 billion. bush recent asked for another 82 billion, plus 413 billion for defence. lol. and americans have no say on what the us government does with the money. no checks and balances. no "f.o.i.a". lol. however, while the us government is embez.zling all this money, the iraqi people continue to go hungry, their homes destroyed by us bombs, and their families murdered, by the us.
Count Carlo from Italia
not only this imbesil is spending the money of the american people but letting a bunch of gangster take the money. why don't he ask the cpountry to support him, bas te r.
JOE from USA
americans have seen nothing. unfortunately, it may take quite a long time before they realize the evil these keepers have done in the name of freeing americans from 'terrorist'. they are in iraq to make money. have you been told what halliburton of cheney did in iraq? they are all rogues.
Passer^bye from UK
i was in baghdad when it fall to the hand of america occupation, i saw with my eyes that many of america's soldiers looting the bank and took away the gold. no wonder if right now their leader is stealing money from iraqi people.
ahmad from iran
2/15/2005 12:00:00 PM GMT
http://www.islamonline.com/cgi-bin/news_se...service_id=6989
International reactions:
let the usa bleed. the money of the us taxpayers will find its way into the pockets of the criminal chunta reigning the usa. i wonder what will happen if the us citizens get awake when they need to pay the bill.
Jo from Germany
corrupt oil robbing baskets, neocon motthaar forkking preeeks, spread democractic values more like spread your robbing ways and lies, this guys are war criminals no difference from saddam
CHE GUEVARA from UK
and these lousy americans have the gall to complain about the oil for food scandal. i am gonna print out this page and the next time one of you lousy americans bring up the oil for food scandel, i gonna this page down your s and let you gag on it. you hyporitcal thugs, you should not throw stones if you live in glass houses.
kareema from australia
the over 200 billion of iraq reconstruction money disappeared, then the 9 billion. bush recent asked for another 82 billion, plus 413 billion for defence. lol. and americans have no say on what the us government does with the money. no checks and balances. no "f.o.i.a". lol. however, while the us government is embez.zling all this money, the iraqi people continue to go hungry, their homes destroyed by us bombs, and their families murdered, by the us.
Count Carlo from Italia
not only this imbesil is spending the money of the american people but letting a bunch of gangster take the money. why don't he ask the cpountry to support him, bas te r.
JOE from USA
americans have seen nothing. unfortunately, it may take quite a long time before they realize the evil these keepers have done in the name of freeing americans from 'terrorist'. they are in iraq to make money. have you been told what halliburton of cheney did in iraq? they are all rogues.
Passer^bye from UK
i was in baghdad when it fall to the hand of america occupation, i saw with my eyes that many of america's soldiers looting the bank and took away the gold. no wonder if right now their leader is stealing money from iraqi people.
ahmad from iran
Iraq agency 'run like Wild West'
Tuesday, 15 February, 2005, 12:09 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4266231.stm
...Former CPA officials told the US Senate that sackfuls of money were often "tossed about like footballs". ...
Former CPA official Franklin Willis told the hearing there had been widespread abuse and waste of money at the authority.
He showed pictures of himself and other US officials holding plastic-wrapped bundles of $100 notes totalling $2m, which he said was used to pay a security contractor.
"We told them to come in and bring a bag," Mr Willis said. ....
Two years after the fall of Baghdad, 80% of the $18bn earmarked by the US Congress for Iraq's reconstruction remains unspent. ...
Tuesday, 15 February, 2005, 12:09 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4266231.stm
...Former CPA officials told the US Senate that sackfuls of money were often "tossed about like footballs". ...
Former CPA official Franklin Willis told the hearing there had been widespread abuse and waste of money at the authority.
He showed pictures of himself and other US officials holding plastic-wrapped bundles of $100 notes totalling $2m, which he said was used to pay a security contractor.
"We told them to come in and bring a bag," Mr Willis said. ....
Two years after the fall of Baghdad, 80% of the $18bn earmarked by the US Congress for Iraq's reconstruction remains unspent. ...
'Wild West' system of contracting exposed
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
15 February 2005
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle...sp?story=611214
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Ex-U.S. Official in Iraq Says CPA Was 'Wild West'
Mon Feb 14, 2005 03:40 PM ET
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7624934
...North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan said passing money stuffed into plastic bags to contractors made it all the more difficult to track funds.
"Your description of passing money around sounds like passing an ice cube around. By the time the person gets the ice cube at the end of the line, it's much smaller," he said.
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U.S. Said to Pay Iraq Contractors in Cash
By LARRY MARGASAK
Associated Press Writer
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll...4/APW/502140532
[this shows the photo of a cash payments]
A journalist who helped Iraq form a new broadcast network in 2003 testified Monday that U.S. occupation officials were more interested in airing their own activities than stories essential to Iraqis.
Don North, who served as a U.S. government adviser to the Iraqi Media Network, said the network became an irrelevant mouthpiece for the U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority.
The network was given "a laundry list of CPA activities" to cover instead of stories on security, the lack of electricity and jobs, said North, an independent journalist....
North told the hearing he wanted the media network to be like the Public Broadcasting System in the United States. Instead, he said, U.S. authorities told him "we were running a public diplomacy operation" for the occupation government.
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Democrats probe alleged mismanagement in Iraq
Senate minority leader: 'This is a scandal'
From Paul Courson
CNN
Monday, February 14, 2005 Posted: 7:58 PM EST (0058 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/14/...ting/index.html
....Dorgan said his panel "would not hold oversight hearings if, in fact, the committees of jurisdiction would be holding the oversight hearings themselves," referring to the Senate Government Affairs Committee.
[tell your senators to hod hearings on this]
Alan Grayson, an attorney who represents people hoping to get a share of reward money as they file under the U.S. False Claims Act, testified that a former FBI agent was recruited by an American subcontractor in Iraq, but walked out when he was asked to inflate charges for time and materials.
Grayson said the man "refused twice and said, 'You all are going to prison.'
"The second time he was held at gunpoint in Baghdad, stripped of his weapons and security identification and then was released, defenseless, on the streets of Baghdad," Grayson said. "I'm talking about Americans holding guns on Americans."
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
15 February 2005
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle...sp?story=611214
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Ex-U.S. Official in Iraq Says CPA Was 'Wild West'
Mon Feb 14, 2005 03:40 PM ET
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7624934
...North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan said passing money stuffed into plastic bags to contractors made it all the more difficult to track funds.
"Your description of passing money around sounds like passing an ice cube around. By the time the person gets the ice cube at the end of the line, it's much smaller," he said.
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U.S. Said to Pay Iraq Contractors in Cash
By LARRY MARGASAK
Associated Press Writer
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll...4/APW/502140532
[this shows the photo of a cash payments]
A journalist who helped Iraq form a new broadcast network in 2003 testified Monday that U.S. occupation officials were more interested in airing their own activities than stories essential to Iraqis.
Don North, who served as a U.S. government adviser to the Iraqi Media Network, said the network became an irrelevant mouthpiece for the U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority.
The network was given "a laundry list of CPA activities" to cover instead of stories on security, the lack of electricity and jobs, said North, an independent journalist....
North told the hearing he wanted the media network to be like the Public Broadcasting System in the United States. Instead, he said, U.S. authorities told him "we were running a public diplomacy operation" for the occupation government.
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Democrats probe alleged mismanagement in Iraq
Senate minority leader: 'This is a scandal'
From Paul Courson
CNN
Monday, February 14, 2005 Posted: 7:58 PM EST (0058 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/14/...ting/index.html
....Dorgan said his panel "would not hold oversight hearings if, in fact, the committees of jurisdiction would be holding the oversight hearings themselves," referring to the Senate Government Affairs Committee.
[tell your senators to hod hearings on this]
Alan Grayson, an attorney who represents people hoping to get a share of reward money as they file under the U.S. False Claims Act, testified that a former FBI agent was recruited by an American subcontractor in Iraq, but walked out when he was asked to inflate charges for time and materials.
Grayson said the man "refused twice and said, 'You all are going to prison.'
"The second time he was held at gunpoint in Baghdad, stripped of his weapons and security identification and then was released, defenseless, on the streets of Baghdad," Grayson said. "I'm talking about Americans holding guns on Americans."
Write to your senators and represenatives about the fraud in U.S. / Iraq contracts.
Especially write to Norm Coleman, who is a rabid dog after the UN / Iraq Oil for Food fraud.
http://coleman.senate.gov/index
The international community is laughing at how we keep screwing up in Iraq.
Tell congress to investigate the Pentagon and the former U.S. Iraq / CPA. Tell them to get the Justice department and this adminsitration to stop ignoring the issue.
Our fraud against the Iraqi's and the U.S. taxpayers is no less serious that Saddam's fraud against his Iraqi people.
Also write letters to the editor.
Especially write to Norm Coleman, who is a rabid dog after the UN / Iraq Oil for Food fraud.
http://coleman.senate.gov/index
The international community is laughing at how we keep screwing up in Iraq.
Tell congress to investigate the Pentagon and the former U.S. Iraq / CPA. Tell them to get the Justice department and this adminsitration to stop ignoring the issue.
Our fraud against the Iraqi's and the U.S. taxpayers is no less serious that Saddam's fraud against his Iraqi people.
Also write letters to the editor.
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