In Iraq, No Room at The Inn for Auditors (Condi wants no snoopers)

[rodeodance]

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002733.php

In Iraq, No Room at The Inn for Auditors
By Paul Kiel - March 12, 2007, 4:04 PM

How strained are resources in Iraq? So strained that the State Department can't afford for three auditors to make a three month visit.

The State Department recently turned down a request for three congressional auditors to make a three-month stay in Baghdad, saying that having them around for that long would be "a serious challenge to mission resources."

In response, 22 Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), have called on Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice to make room. "American taxpayers are currently being asked to spend approximately $3,420 every second and $280 million per day in Iraq," reads a letter to Rice sent today. "It is imperative that GAO be given the access it needs to serve as the eyes and ears of the United States Congress...."

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In the letter sent to Sec. Rice today, the Democrats didn't buy that argument, asking instead that the State Department make room for a six-month stay for the auditors.

[Botany]

1. This might be one of the resons why Halliburton is moving

Billing for 30,000 meals but serving 8,000?

[TomInTib]

5. Military support is a KBR thing

That is why they are kindasorta "spinning off" KBR and leaving it in the US.

My evil stepfather was COO of KBR until a few years ago and he refuses to even begin to discuss this latest piece of business.

[ThomCat]

2. They blatantly don't want any oversight.

They are all but announcing that they are committing fraud with all that money and they don't want the auditors to see what's going on.
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[rodeodance]

3. Bingo-------esp. from Congresscritters!

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. Anyone else remember that she was "The Un-sticker"?

(Sometimes I feel like things must have happened in a nightmare because they disappear so quickly.)

IIRC, when Iraq first started to really go south Bush announced that Condi was in charge. She was the "un-sticker". Heckuvajob, Condi! She got a promotion to Secretary of State for that unbelievable performance.