OMG! Bush nixes search of missing $ in Iraq - signing statement

[MissWaverly]

Must read this story headlined at Bussflash: 21 Billion for Iraq reconstruction goes missing. Congress gets wind of this, writes bill authorizing investigation. Bush signs bill, adding
“signing statement” preventing investigation. Crony dictatorship accomplished. 6/10

The deception was far-reaching. When Thomas Gimble, the acting inspector general of the Pentagon, was asked in 2005 during a congressional hearing by Christopher Shays (R-CT), chair of the House government reform subcommittee, why the Pentagon had no audit team in Iraq to look for fraud, Gimble facilely replied that such a team was "not needed" because Congress had set up the special inspector general unit to do that. He didn't mention that the president had barred the special inspector general from investigating Pentagon scandals.
This would all be pretty funny except for two things.

First of all, Americans and Iraqis are dying in droves because of the chaos that the U.S. invasion and occupation have created in Iraq-a problem that that $9 billion in missing Congressionally-allocated funds, and the bales of US dollars, were supposed to have solved.

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff06072006.html