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More waste and fraud in Iraq
in Sox First, on August 2, 2008
...e only 10 to 12. And the US Government was doing nothing to monitor the work not being done. "SIGIR could not locate inventory records for items purchased by the contractor in support of constru...
Iraqi accounting system mismanaged
in Sox First, on October 26, 2007
... hell is going on there. A new report from the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) found that the new computer accounting system there, the $38 million-plus Iraq Financial Man...
Iraq watchdog lives again
in Sox First, on November 15, 2006
Now that they have roared back into power, one of the first things the Democrats have done is introduce legislation in the House and Senate extending the life of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction , reports the New York Times. The audit office, which had issu...
Iraq auditing: shooting the messenger
in Sox First, on November 5, 2006
Earlier this week, I did a blog entry on the problems doing the accounting for Iraqi reconstruction. Now we have the extraordinary news that the Bush administration is closing down the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction which has consistently exposed corr...
Arms and accounting
in Sox First, on November 2, 2006
With the cost of the war in Iraq now at $2 trillion, and climbing, according to estimates from researchers including Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz , it's alarming to read news reports of a US Government finding that the US military has no system for accounting the hundreds of thousands o...