Poor records plague Bush AIDS effort

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - President Bush's ambitious AIDS-fighting program in poor countries has pushed so hard for fast results that basic record keeping and accountability often went by the wayside, making it hard to judge the true success, according to government audits and officials.

Investigators found the three-year-old, $15-billion program has overcounted and undercounted thousands patients it helped or was unable to verify claims of success by local groups that took U.S. money to prevent the spread of disease or care for AIDS victims and their children.

The Bush administration says it has worked to fix the problems that were found in multiple countries and outlined in several audits reviewed by The Associated Press.

"It's not good enough for the auditors to hear from the mission that we did A, B and C but we can't prove it to you, or there's no documentation to prove that we did it," said Joe Farinella, a top watchdog inside the U.S. Agency for International Development.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061225/ap_on_he_me/aids_accountability

[truthisfreedom]

1. bush... presiding over the greatest expansion of fraud and government waste and outright theft

of the US Treasury in the history of our country.

[MethuenProgressive]

2. This key phrase defines everything Bush:

"...pushed so hard for fast results that basic record keeping and accountability often went by the wayside"

[cornermouse]

3. When you keep records, you keep evidence for future charges.

[acmejack]

4. This Administration has hired for Ideology and Cronyism

Not Competency and Credentials, it has been a recurrent theme in every sector. Given the commitment to rewarding followers for loyalty and for no other reason, the consistently poor results of every Administration Initiative should not be any great surprise.

[Ian David]

5. I guess they were using faith-based accounting methods again? n/t

[maddezmom]

6. pretty much

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