GAO Seeks Review of Spy Agencies

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Source: Washington Post

The Outgoing Chief Auditor Makes a Pitch on Capitol Hill


Comptroller General David M. Walker, who leaves office Wednesday, testifies on Capitol Hill. (By Chip Somodevilla -- Getty Images)

By http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/paul+kane/">Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 7, 2008; Page A15

As he leaves his post as the nation's top auditor, David M. Walker is again asking Congress to give the Government Accountability Office the power to review the finances of the CIA and other intelligence agencies.

Walker, whose 10-year term as comptroller general concludes Wednesday, is supporting legislation that would give the GAO access to the last major area of the federal government not subject to its audits and investigations.

With some support on Capitol Hill, Walker said he is fighting powerful legislative patrons of intelligence agencies, especially the CIA, who have resisted examinations of how taxpayer dollars are spent.

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Walker, however, said he is not asking to look into the "sources and methods" used by spy agencies. Instead, he wants the GAO to look into "basic management transformation challenges" such as how the CIA recruits and retains top talent and, more important, how the agency has allocated its multibillion-dollar budget.

The GAO is already empowered to examine the finances of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and it has highlighted many examples of waste, fraud and abuse. Walker said. "I have little doubt that those challenges exist within the intelligence community," he said.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030603773.html

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Hmm... Looks like he smells something bad with the finances of the CIA and their related defense agencies, and wants something done about it before he has to leave the IG spot! I wonder if that has anything to do with what Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sontagszeitung and other news agencies have alleged about black ops such as theirs being financed by counterfeit U.S. dollars that they could be minting and trying to blame on North Korea:

http://www.watchingamerica.com/frankfurterallgemeine000008.shtml

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/magazine/23counterfeit.html?ex=1311307200&en=1532e77e2eabea37&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

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1. Counterfeiting, money laundering, front companies, all of the above

Good Luck to Walker.