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The State Department has no idea what happened to $6 billion used to pay its contractors.
In a special “management alert” made public Thursday, the State Department’s Inspector General Steve Linick warned “significant financial risk and a lack of internal control at the department has led to billions of unaccounted dollars over the last six years.
The alert was just the latest example of the federal government’s continued struggle with oversight over its outside contractors.
The lack of oversight “exposes the department to significant financial risk,” the auditor said. “It creates conditions conducive to fraud"
The State Department had been without an inspector general position for five years—the longest IG vacancy in the government’s history.
The State Department had been without an inspector general position for five years—the longest IG vacancy in the government’s history.
And in an unrelated story, the CBO stated that the cost for the 2016 election would be @ 6 billion dollars. . . . .
ausername
Did ambassador Stevens and others know where that money was being spent?
Maybe aiding rebels in Libya, Syria and Egypt?
Anything could be possible. You can do a lot with $6 billion.
Bassago
So over the last 6 years the US State Department just happens to "lose" $6 billion, or at least they have no idea what happened to it. Isn't that funny occurring during this "let them eat cake" administration. What's $6 billion to them anyway and why didn't the IG auditor notice this?
The Department should take additional action to correct its inadequate enforcement of the FAR's provisions, and its own procedures, that govern the maintenance of contract files. The failure to enforce those requirements exposes the Department to significant financial risk and makes OIG oversight more difficult.