GOP Congress Closes Oversite Office After Scandals Exposed

Snuck into Bill, no oversight in Iraq, They did it again

Neither the House nor the Senate version contained such a termination clause before the conference, all involved agree.
"It's truly a mystery to me," Ms. Collins said. "I looked at what I thought was the final version of the conference report and that provision was not in at that time."
"The one thing I can confirm is that this was a last-minute insertion," she said.

Investigations led by a Republican lawyer, Stuart W. Bowen Jr., in Iraq have sent American occupation officials to jail on bribery and conspiracy charges, exposed disastrously poor construction work by well-connected companies like Halliburton and Parsons, and discovered that the military did not properly track hundreds of thousands of weapons it shipped to Iraqi security forces.

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Congress gets rid of Iraq oversight

Auditor's office quietly shut down; Exposed US bribery, conspiracy scandals.

Paul Krugman As Bechtel Goes

Paul Krugman writes: "Bechtel, the giant engineering company, is leaving Iraq. Its mission - to rebuild power, water and sewage plants - wasn't accomplished: Baghdad received less than six hours a day of electricity last month, and much of Iraq's population lives with untreated sewage and without clean water. But Bechtel, having received $2.3 billion of taxpayers' money and having lost the

lives of 52 employees, has come to the end of its last government contract."

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