Interior, Pentagon Faulted In Audits

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Effort to Speed Defense Contracts Wasted Millions
The Defense Department paid two procurement operations at the Department of the Interior to arrange for Pentagon purchases totaling $1.7 billion that resulted in excessive fees and tens of millions of dollars in waste, documents show.

Defense turned to Interior, which manages federal lands and resources, in an effort to speed up its contracting. Interior is one of several government agencies allowed to manage contracts for other agencies in exchange for a fee.

But the arrangement between Interior and Defense "routinely violated rules designed to protect U.S. Government interests," according to draft audit documents obtained by The Washington Post.

More than half of the contracts examined were awarded without competition or without checks to determine that the prices were reasonable, according to the audits by the inspectors general for Defense (DOD) and Interior (DOI). Ninety-two percent of the work reviewed was awarded without verifying that the contractors' cost estimates were accurate; 96 percent was inadequately monitored.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/24/AR2006122400916.html

[maddezmom]

1. disgusting

:mad:

[SpiralHawk]

2. BushCo republicons = corruption

Why do republicons steal steal steal from America?

Why do they hate morality?

What a pack of Pharisees.

[elehhhhna]

3. So THAT"S why Abramhoff et al wanted into Interior soooo bad.

IIRC< Abramhoff was on Bush's Dept of Interior "Transition team".

[lovuian]

4. Rumsfeld =Biggest Crook

Stole Billions from the governmnet

[truthisfreedom]

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

of the Treasury in the history of our country.

Hey, how many threads can I say this in today? Is this some kind of record?

8^)

[Joanne98]

6. Gale Norton is a major crook!

[williesgirl]

7. Who will be held accountable for yet another mismanaged project - no one, as usual. recommended