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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 10K a day who wrote (42848)	4/23/2005 12:52:25 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Now that's real faith in action. =========== More Bush incompetence in Iraq. This is where our tax dollars are being wasted, squandered, stolen, ripped-off... Why should any contractor in Iraq bother to do a decent job when they can simply lie, steal taxpayer money and then lie some more? There are no consequences for this behavior as Halliburton and Bechtel have been delighted to find out. latimes.com "In Iraq, Aegis serves as an information clearinghouse, running centers that conduct daily briefings in which unclassified intelligence is exchanged by the U.S. military and security contractors. It also guards facilities and transports officials. In random checks, the audit found that of 20 non-Iraqi employees who had been issued 30 weapons, the company could document training for only 13 of the weapons. The inspector general also found no evidence that any of the 20 Iraqi employees in the review had undergone police background checks. The company argued that such checks had no value in the chaos of Iraq. The audit also reported that Aegis had created six centers, instead of the 18 called for in the contract, and had not provided the hostage-rescue training mandated by the contract. The company said those terms were changed at the direction of the U.S. in response to circumstances in Iraq. U.S. officials backed up Aegis' contention. The report also criticized the oversight exercised by the Project and Contracting Office, the Pentagon agency that manages the reconstruction effort."