Chairman Waxman Writes to State Department IG on Political Interference

[babylonsister]

http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=769

Chairman Waxman Writes to State Department IG on Political Interference

Today Chairman Waxman of the Oversight Committee wrote a letter to State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard describing allegations that, according to seven current and former officials, Mr. Krongard has repeatedly interfered with on-going investigations to protect the State Department and the White House from political embarrassment.

Excerpts from the letter (pdf) below.

On the broad allegations:

Since your testimony at the Committee’s hearing on July 26, 2007, current and former employees of the Office of Inspector General have contacted my staff with allegations that you interfered with on-going investigations to protect the State Department and the White House from political embarrassment.

On the scope of the allegations:

The allegations made by these officials are not limited to a single unit or project within your office. Instead, they span all three major divisions of the Office of Inspector General — investigations, audits, and inspections. The allegations were made by employees of varied rank, ranging from line staff to upper management.

On the specifics of the allegations:

· Although the State Department has expended over $3.6 billion on contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, you refused to send any investigators to those countries to pursue investigations into wasteful spending or procurement fraud and have concluded no fraud investigations relating to the contracts.

· You prevented your investigators from cooperating with a Justice Department investigation into waste, fraud, and abuse relating to the new U.S. Embassy in Iraq and followed highly irregular procedures in exonerating the prime contractor, First Kuwaiti Trading Company, of charges of labor trafficking.

· You prevented your investigators from seizing evidence that they believed would have implicated a large State Department contractor in procurement fraud in Afghanistan.

· You impeded efforts by your investigators to cooperate with a Justice Department probe into allegations that a large private security contractor was smuggling weapons into Iraq.

· You interfered with an on-going investigation into the conduct of Kenneth Tomlinson, the head of Voice of America and a close associate of Karl Rove, by passing information about the inquiry to Mr. Tomlinson.

· You censored portions of inspection reports on embassies so that critical information on security vulnerabilities was dropped from classified annexes and not disclosed to Congress.

· You rejected audits of the State Department’s financial statements that documented accounting concerns and refused to publish them until points critical of the Department had been removed.

[rateyes]

1. Here's a link to the letter:

http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070918105806.pdf

:kick: & R

for truth and justice.

[EFerrari]

2. The corruption in this administration is endless.

:wow:

[budibudinski]

4. They plotted to overthrow the US Government, via a bogus election,

and by appointment of GWBush by the US Supreme Court, on behalf of the Bush Crony Organization, of those who would profit by such placement.
Their plotting took place with the sole purpose of profit by raiding the US Treasury, and to secure appointments to key official government positions, so as to alter the laws of the United States of America in order to create protection from prosecution for such crimes as treason, cronyism, war profiteering, and all or any criminal activity deemed necessary to secure such a monetary raid.


This was the biggest money grab in world history. They have succeeded. Who cleans up the mess is not of their concern. Their riches are secure and they will retreat to their palaces, bought & built for them by the people of the United States of America.

[EFerrari]

5. That's a good summary, I'd say. Welcome to DU.

:hi:

[budibudinski]

6. tks, & I will post this wherever it applies..lol

because I truely believe it is all the truth there is.
Everything has evolved from that. Beginning with the hunting of Bill Clinton, the set-up election of GWBush, the attack on the Twin Towers, and all that has followed.

Bush Inc. is a for-profit organization beholding to no one but themselves.

[EFerrari]

7. When you have access to the DU archives,

check out Octafish's "Know your BFEE" posts. I think you will find them interesting. :)

[budibudinski]

8. tks I will & am anxiously awaiting my right to do so.

how many posts do I need to belong to DU (officially)?

[L. Coyote]

3. Waxman is a wolverine. And, is anyone not a co-conspirator in the Bush Admin?

It just gets deeper and deeper, like a barn in winter :rofl: