Don't put it in the hands of the State Department, whatever you do:
"Reports Assail State Department on Iraq Security" by ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID ROHDE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 — A pair of new reports have delivered sharply critical judgments about the State Department’s performance in overseeing work done by the private companies that the government relies on increasingly in Iraq and Afghanistan to carry out delicate security work and other missions.
A State Department review of its own security practices in Iraq assails the department for poor coordination, communication, oversight and accountability involving armed security companies like Blackwater USA, according to people who have been briefed on the report. In addition to Blackwater, the State Department’s two other security contractors in Iraq are DynCorp International and Triple Canopy.
At the same time, a government audit expected to be released Tuesday says that records documenting the work of DynCorp, the State Department’s largest contractor, are in such disarray that the department cannot say “specifically what it received” for most of the $1.2 billion it has paid the company since 2004 to train the police officers in Iraq.
[OUT-FUCKING-RAGEOUS!!!
Hey, give me $1.2 BILLION and watch me PISS IT ALL AWAY!!!
So, WHO STOLE THE MONEY?!?!
Not like YOU could have used that $1.2 BILLION for ANYTHING, Americans!!!
Haven't you fucking HAD IT like me, readers?!
I AM FUCKING SICK of this GOD-DAMN GOVERNMENT!!!!!
It is TIME to GO, shitters!!!!!!!!]
The four-member panel found serious fault with virtually every aspect of the department’s security practices, especially in and around Baghdad, where Blackwater has responsibility.
One official who has been briefed on the report but who spoke on the condition of anonymity because it has not been released yet:
“They don’t have the right communications, they don’t have the right procedures in place, and you’ve got people operating on their own.”
The audit said that until earlier this year the State Department had only two government employees in Iraq overseeing as many as 700 DynCorp employees. The result was “an environment vulnerable to waste and fraud,” the audit said.
Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the chief of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, said in an interview:
"When you put two people on the ground to manage a billion dollars, that’s pretty weak."
[But it sure works if your plan is to STAEL and LOOT it!]
The contract gave DynCorp the job of building police training facilities and deploying hundreds of police trainers to instruct more than 150,000 Iraqi police officers.
[And nothing to show for it, huh?
Can you imagine how your boss would feel after he paid you for work, but you didn't do anything afterwards.
Would YOU still have a job, reader?]
Developing a police force was considered central to stabilizing Iraq.
[Aww, the surge took care of that, anyway, right?
So I was LIED TO AGAIN?]
The State Department said it had improved monitoring of DynCorp, but in a letter to auditors department officials said that it would still take “three to five years” to reconcile fully the payments made to the company during the first two years of the training contract, beginning in February 2004.
[Three to five YEARS to figure out the fraud?
Why?
They are UP MY ASS with a ROTO-ROOTER if I round off a deduction!!!!
WTF?!?!]
As a sign of the confusion, the State Department reported to auditors that as part of its work in Iraq, DynCorp had purchased a $1.8 million X-ray scanner that was never used and spent $387,000 to house company officials in hotels rather than in existing living facilities.
[As YOU are getting KICKED OUT of YOURS, readers! Good Christ!!
What the fuck do these war-profiteering companies care?
It's only YOUR MONEY, Amurkn!]
Then, later, the State Department said those costs were actually incurred in Afghanistan, according to the audit. State Department officials say they have always said the spending occurred in Afghanistan.
[Good Liars at State, huh, readers?
You full yet, Amurkn?]
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut:
"[The special inspector general has shown, once again] how vulnerable the federal government is to waste when it doesn’t invest up front in proper contract oversight. This scenario is far too frequent across the federal government: we spend billions of dollars for goods and services with no oversight plans in place and hope and pray that an audit will identify any mistakes later.”
[And we send BILLIONS to ISRAEL, too, Joe, so sit THE fuck down, you Zionist shitter!!!!]
A review of DynCorp’s spending over the past year identified $29 million in overcharges by DynCorp, including $108,000 in business travel, according to a State Department letter in response to Mr. Bowen’s auditors. A separate review by the Defense Contracting Audit Agency found that DynCorp had billed for $162,869 of labor hours “for which it did not pay its workers.”
[Yeah, but YOU DIDN'T NEED THAT MONEY for ANYTHING, Amurkn!
And DynCorp sounds like "The Firm!"
And, hey, BOTH work for CRIMINALS!!!]
Gregory Lagana, a DynCorp spokesman, said the amounts involved were small fractions of the $1.2 billion paid to DynCorp since 2004. He said that if DynCorp filed an erroneous charge the company would reimburse it, adding that DynCorp had already reimbursed the State Department for $72,000.
[Yeah, $29 MILLION is NOTHING, right?
Maybe to Lagana; I sure could use it!
How 'bout you, Amurkn shit-eater?]
Mr. Lagana: “There was no intentional misbilling. It could be just a documents problem.”
[$1.2 BILLION of DOCUMENTATION PROBLEMS?!
If that's the case, this whole fucking government should be FIRED!!]
He said that the company initially struggled with some record-keeping.
“We fully acknowledge that we have some problems with invoicing. It’s something we’re working really hard to clean up.”
[I don't know how you incompetent, bungling companies are still doin' bidness -- and MAKING BUKU fucking profits, too!
Unless this is all BULLSHIT flowing from Lagana's rectum hole of a mouth!]
In a letter to Ms. Rice on Monday, Representative Henry A. Waxman of California, the Democratic chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, accused the department of failing to respond to a request the committee made in March for DynCorp-related documents. Mr. Waxman, whose committee is investigating the department’s oversight of both DynCorp and Blackwater, demanded that the department send him the records by Nov. 2.
[Hey, Henry, WHAT EVER HAPPENED to that subpoena you issued to the War Princess on the "yellowcake charge" against Iraq?
Hanh?
WHAT EVER HAPPENED to the SUBPOENA, Henry?
Never served it, did you, you cowardly poser!]
Officials and auditors said the law enforcement bureau that handled the DynCorp contracts was overwhelmed when large police training programs were begun in Afghanistan and Iraq.
[And yet, this government told us all they were READY TO GO!
Yup, didn't plan a god-damn thing, did they?
But they RUSHED us right in to WAR, didn't they?
And TOLD US they were READY!
That it was a "place and time of our choosing."
FUCKING LIARS!!!!!!!!!!!]
A senior State Department official said the bureau was not equipped to handle such large contracts.
The official, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly:
“You have a perfect storm of bad events. You have huge amounts of money passing through an organization that is being retooled as it’s running the race of its life.”
[You gotta be shittin' me!
I AM SICK of the FUCKING EXCUSES while the American people are HURTING!!!!
YOU HEAR ME, you BASTARDS?!?
You'd BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
