Apparently, no major news outfits felt that this was a top story-Howard J. Krongard, the State Department's inspector general, has repeatedly thwarted investigations and censored reports that might prove politically embarrassing to the Bush administration, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform charged today in a 13-page letter.
Its even worse than the first paragraph lets on. I highly recommend this read, but shame on everyone but the Washington Post for not running this on the headlines today. This is exactly the kind of BS that Americans have grown tired of. I want my tax dollars back, I think we could all use a slice of the squandered $3 billion.
Can't get universal healthcare, but our government is more than happy to cut a no-questions-asked blank check to a ridiculously corrupt contractor with no oversight whatsoever.
In other news...Blackwater, the United States' largest private army has lost its license to operate in Iraq. Sounds good for the Iraqi people and American tax payers (who have been paying these guys' salaries) and bad for the politicians they have been protecting; also with virtually no oversight and a seemingly blank (American tax dollar) check. Looks like the Iraqi government is going to investigate everyone else as well in their most intelligent move yet. Read about it here.
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