Wolfowitz guts CPA fraud watchdog provision

[Sliverofhope]

What a surprise ...

When congress voted the $87 billion for military expenditures and reconstruction in Iraq they were keen to create an office of Inspector General at the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) to watch out for all manner of waste, fraud, abuse, price gouging and various other shenanigans.

Now it seems that Paul Wolfowitz has gutted that provision.

According to Inside the Pentagon, a weekly newsletter, "Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz last week directed a newly formed inspector general's office in Iraq not to request sensitive information about Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) activities related to intelligence or operational plans."

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2003_12_07.html#002316

[Mattforclark]

1. Because

Checking to make sure that there isn't waste is wasteful.

[Sliverofhope]

2. kick

Yeah, yeah, it's another corruption story. Dime a dozen.

[Sliverofhope]

3. My poor threads are cursed

one final kick before it sinks into the dark void of "yet another criminal BFEE enterprise"

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. No I'll kick it!

[oasis]

4. DoD hasn't accounted for over a trillion $$$$. This lax in accounting

spans over past administrations to the present.

"NOW" with Bill Moyers had a good feature on Defense Department accounting. Check their website.

[Kool Kitty]

6. I get unpleasantly surprised

every day by this bunch of crooks. Imagine, for just one second, if any of this was happening during a Democratic administration. (I can't imagine it happening with Dems, but anything's possible.) They wouldn't even stop with impeachment, they'd want the Prez exiled.

[oasis]

7. kick