It's no wonder the Bush Administration and the Contractors are all great pals

[ck4829]

The Bush Administration has millions of emails missing and the contractors have millions of contracts that have never been finished, imagine that!

"Millions of dollars of lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor performance or other factors, including failed projects that are being falsely described by the U.S. government as complete, federal investigators say.

The audit released Sunday by Stuart Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, provides the latest snapshot of an uneven reconstruction effort that has cost U.S. taxpayers more than $100 billion. It also comes as several lawmakers have said they want the Iraqis to pick up more of the cost of reconstruction.

The special IG's review of 47,321 reconstruction projects worth billions of dollars found that at least 855 contracts were terminated by U.S. officials before their completion, primarily because of unforeseen factors such as violence and excessive costs. About 112 of those agreements were ended specifically because of the contractors' actual or anticipated poor performance.

In addition, the audit said many reconstruction projects were being described as complete or otherwise successful when they were not. In one case, the U.S. Agency for International Development contracted with Bechtel Corp. in 2004 to construct a $50 million children's hospital in Basra, only to "essentially terminate" the project in 2006 because of monthslong delays."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080428/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/iraq_reconstruction

[LakeSamish706]

1. Bush and his crocked F***ing cronies have been laughing all the way to the bank...

for the past 7 1/2 years.... And our elected morons have chosen to take Impeachment off the table. We need some new blood in Washington DC and it probably will require a full sweep of these loser idiot's that are being paid at least $160,000.00 buck per year.

[notesdev]

2. Those emails aren't "missing"

They are either being withheld, or the records have been destroyed. White House data doesn't just go walking off on its own, and I am ready and willing at any time to recover the data in question - the software is already written - the moment I am given authorization to do so. Which I expect will be never.