NY TIMES:
The State Department agency in charge of $1.4 billion in reconstruction money in Iraq used an accounting shell game to hide ballooning cost overruns on its projects in Iraq and knowingly withheld information on schedule delays from Congress, a federal audit released late Friday has found. The agency hid construction overruns by listing them as overhead or administrative costs, according to the audit, written by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, an independent office that reports to Congress and the Pentagon.... [*]
State was usually a bastion of sanity in Repug Admins fighting off the war-mongers in Defense and the WH, but they could not resist the pervasive corruptive stench of BushCo and fell for the temptation of protecting their buddies. They should all be impeached, court martialed, tried, convicted, tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.
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