State Dept. “Missing” $6 Billion Under Secretary Hillary Clinton

[singular_me]

Id like to know how much taxpayers have paid for the investigation.

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Friday, April 4, 2014
The State Department misplaced and lost some $6 billion due to the improper filing of contracts during the past six years, mainly during the tenure of former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, according to a newly released Inspector General report.

The $6 billion in unaccounted funds poses a “significant financial risk and demonstrates a lack of internal control over the Department’s contract actions,” according to the report.

The alert, originally sent on March 20 and just released this week, warns that the missing contracting funds “could expose the department to substantial financial losses.”

The report centered on State Department contracts worth “more than $6 billion in which contract files were incomplete or could not be located at all,” according to the alert.

“The failure to maintain contract files adequately creates significant financial risk and demonstrates a lack of internal control over the Department’s contract actions,” the alert states.

The situation “creates conditions conducive to fraud, as corrupt individuals may attempt to conceal evidence of illicit behavior by omitting key documents from the contract file,” the report concluded.

The State Department’s inability to properly file its paperwork is causing most of the losses, according to the report.

The IG “found repeated examples of poor contract file administration” over the years, the report said.


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[Hatha Sunahara]

People who work for the government are accountable only to their immediate bosses. At the very top, the executive is accountable 'to the American People' who, for all practical purposes, have no means to control the government (not even through the ballot box--because they can only vote for the choices of TPTB.) So, effectively responsibility for all adverse outcomes in the government is so widely diffuse that it doesn't exist. No one in the government will be held accountable for the missing $6 billion. We will never know where it went. The people who disbursed the money likely have been rewarded with promotions, and will continue to obey orders of their bosses in the future without moral or practical considerations. This absence of accountability will persist until the whole system that allows it comes crashing down. At the current rate of deterioration, that should not take too long. Three more years, perhaps five at most.


Hatha

[Horn]

Its like they keep going from dept. to dept. with their bribe money, before the Pentagon now the State Department.

How it would even get near that amount is clear evidence of corruption on all levels.

[Cebu_4_2]

Its like they keep going from dept. to dept. with their bribe money, before the Pentagon now the State Department.

How it would even get near that amount is clear evidence of corruption on all levels.

It's okay, they are our government elected officials that WE voted for..

[Horn]

It's okay, they are our government elected officials that WE voted for..

These department people are all an anointed annoyance.

Yes, the anointers are most likely at the other end of the lost contracts.

[Serpo]

http://cryandhowl.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/obama-clinton-bush-lieberman-laughing.jpg

[Glass]

I'm sitting here reading about an elderly woman who is blind and has cerebral palsy. She can't move very well, cant clean herself or cook for herself. She has a carer for 6 hrs 1 day per week. so on that day she gets bathed and fed. Then waits 6 day without either until the next visit. She used $90,000 of her own money to pay for a carer but now is broke.

I'm reading how it took 2 hours for an ambulance to get to a man when he had had the shit beaten out of him, fractured neck, brain bleeding. Because they closed wards in the hospital. I read how they spent multi billions on a desalination plant that since completion 2 years ago has not supplied any water and the government pays $600 million a year to the operator who does nothing for the money. It's probably the most efficiently run water plant in the country. They also bailed out the consortium who built it who wanted $1.3 billion.

In queensland the government paid $4 billion for a health management computer system that did not work and they shut it down. How can you spend $4 billion on software. And thats not the only state. There are 3 states that spent $10 billion on 3 failed software projects. How is that possible?

In my state the past 3 governments have all given contracts for a news sports stadium costing $80 million each time. The number of new sports stadiums that were built is ZERO. They are now going for the 4 attempt at an enormous cost to the community. A doubling of gambling facilities and the gifting of land for a mega casino hotel. I hold little hope there will be a stadium. Everything else will be built first, then the stadium will be too costly for the casino to pay for.

Meanwhile the people above and thousands like them are living in misery. But thats ok. Some people are buying nice cars, mansions and holiday condo's in Asian resorts like phuket.

I say again, we don't actually need a political class. they do nothing for us.

[palani]

we don't actually need a political class. they do nothing for us.

Do you get Coast to Coast down there? They had a good one last nite. The guest was talking about a bald Eagle hen that had been raised with chickens. So this Eagle actually thought she was a chicken. When hawks sailed overhead she would run with the other chickens to the henhouse for protection.

Once a male bald Eagle sailed overhead and spotted this Eagle hen in the chick pen. He sailed down to land near her but didn't succeed before she got to the henhouse. But he kept watching from above and was finally able land between her and the shed. He wasn't able to convince her that she was indeed an Eagle and she was able to avoid him again to get in with the rest of the chickens in the henhouse. Discussing the event with the other chickens she counted herself lucky that she had avoided his arguments.

Another story they had was of 5 monkeys caged with a ladder with bananas near the top of the cage. Any time a monkey started climbing the ladder to get a banana the rest of the monkeys would get a cold shower. Pretty soon the other monkeys would beat up any monkey attempting to climb for a banana. Then one monkey was removed and another substituted. When the new one attempted to climb for a banana he would get beat up. They eliminated all of the original monkeys one at a time and were finally left with a group of monkeys that had never experienced a cold shower but still practiced the habit of beating up any monkey who tried to climb the ladder.

[Neuro]

Another story they had was of 5 monkeys caged with a ladder with bananas near the top of the cage. Any time a monkey started climbing the ladder to get a banana the rest of the monkeys would get a cold shower. Pretty soon the other monkeys would beat up any monkey attempting to climb for a banana. Then one monkey was removed and another substituted. When the new one attempted to climb for a banana he would get beat up. They eliminated all of the original monkeys one at a time and were finally left with a group of monkeys that had never experienced a cold shower but still practiced the habit of beating up any monkey who tried to climb the ladder.
Nice education system! I guess government gave each monkey a banana a day in welfare! Sounds like the system they have in Detroit to encourage entrepreneurs.

[Hatha Sunahara]

Do you get Coast to Coast down there? They had a good one last nite. The guest was talking about a bald Eagle hen that had been raised with chickens. So this Eagle actually thought she was a chicken. When hawks sailed overhead she would run with the other chickens to the henhouse for protection.

Once a male bald Eagle sailed overhead and spotted this Eagle hen in the chick pen. He sailed down to land near her but didn't succeed before she got to the henhouse. But he kept watching from above and was finally able land between her and the shed. He wasn't able to convince her that she was indeed an Eagle and she was able to avoid him again to get in with the rest of the chickens in the henhouse. Discussing the event with the other chickens she counted herself lucky that she had avoided his arguments.

Another story they had was of 5 monkeys caged with a ladder with bananas near the top of the cage. Any time a monkey started climbing the ladder to get a banana the rest of the monkeys would get a cold shower. Pretty soon the other monkeys would beat up any monkey attempting to climb for a banana. Then one monkey was removed and another substituted. When the new one attempted to climb for a banana he would get beat up. They eliminated all of the original monkeys one at a time and were finally left with a group of monkeys that had never experienced a cold shower but still practiced the habit of beating up any monkey who tried to climb the ladder.

The first story is for people who believe they can 'wake up' the sheeple. As long as the sheeple have a 'support system' they will never 'wake up'. They will always be sheeple. But, remove one of them from the support system, and you have a chance of waking that one up. Waking up the sheeple is done one at a time. Even bald eagles understand that.

This second story is for people who believe that 'voting out the incumbents' will change things for the better. If you made them play a new game with new rules, things might change for the better. But as long as the game and the rules are the same, changing faces will change nothing but the individuals involved.


Hatha

[Glass]

yes you are right Hatha. They cannot fathom anything different. I was listening to a sheeple discussion this morning about the missing plane. The consensus was that the plane was hijacked by a navy pilot who knew how to turn off the transponders, flew it to 45,000" to kill everyone...... so far so good.. but then it was landed on a aircraft carrier for refueling before being flown to Diego?? I think that was the gist of the last part. A lot of noise at that exact moment. Someone trying to block the conversation.

So I said, you don't have to be on a plane to hijack it. How so they bleated?

It could be remotely controlled I said. Well the hoohar was amazing. It is not possible to remotely fly a plane!!!! And how could you remotely fly a plane if you can watch it or see where you are going with it? And anyway you can't fly planes remotely.

What can you say to that. I can't say that the GM of Boeing said on record more than 20 years ago they were installing remote controls on all their planes? That Boeing flew a plane from LA to Sydney 100% remote control and I think that was in the 1980's. It was front page news at the time. Maybe it was autopilot.

Never mind that the US had Drones flying all over the place. All remotely controlled from the other side of the planet. Sure they take off under local control but then it is handed over to the US flight controllers.

The disconnect it staggering. I've also concluded that people have a memory of probably not more than a couple of years. Most people it might be a year. Beyond that they remember nothing. I can't find the LA to Sydney info online. I've been looking. I did see it on line a couple years back but I can't find it now. I've notice Google doesn't let you go back more than maybe 5 years in history now. Anything older than that and it doesn't come up in the searches.

anyway I've concluded that to make any change in the world, you better not be waiting to get the sheep on board. You will be waiting an eternity. TPTB know this. You just go do it and leave them to their own delusions. They aren't going to change. Repetition of myth = truth. Thats how they live. Sometimes contempt builds in me and threatens to ovwewhelm my empathy and sympathy for their circumstances. The willfulness of it.