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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTPM News Report: Government Missing Files For $6 Billion In Contracts
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AP April 6, 2014, 8:04 AM EDT4003
WASHINGTON (AP) A government investigation has found that the State Department has incomplete files or is missing files for more than $6 billion in contracts over the last six years.
In one case involving State Department operations in Iraq, officials couldn't provide 33 of the 115 contract files requested. Those missing files were for contracts worth $2.1 billion.
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TPM News Report: Government Missing Files For $6 Billion In Contracts (Original Post)
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JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)1. What in the world? How could the files be missing?
Were they misplaced or improperly filed, or did they never exist?
Does this suggest fraud?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)2. Looks lihe the Democrats have decided to put everything out in case the elections go south. If the
GOP takes the Senate, it'll be nothing but rubberstamping what Paul Ryan, Rand Paul and their masters the Koch brothers want signed. And there will never be another Senate investigation on this mess. So let it all come out now. And it might help the midterms, as the truth needs to be on the record before the people buy the lies of the billionaire media.
SamKnause
(13,088 posts)3. On September 10, 2001 the day before 9/11
Donald Rumsfeld announced the Pentagon could not account for 2.3 TRILLION DOLLARS !!!!
Same bullshit different decade, different year, different day.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)4. Entertain the possibility that the $6 billion amount is greatly understated.
They say $6 billion? I figure it's more like $12 billion. What do we know? We know the lies NEVER stop.