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Defense Auditors Can’t Keep Up

Staff / Truthdig May 28, 2008 Thanks to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the privatization of the military and the surge in defense spending since 9/11, individual Pentagon auditors now have to keep track of more than three times as much money as they did 10 years ago. Because of limited resources, the Defense Department inspector general revealed in a recent report, about half of the military's $316 billion weapons budget went under the radar last year. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Rubber-Stamping ‘Failed’ Iraq Projects

Staff / Truthdig Apr 28, 2008 The special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction has found a disturbing trend among Iraq rebuilding projects. Far too often, when work is incomplete, U.S. officials will revise or "descope" the terms of the contract to list the project as completed. One example: A $35-million children's hospital in Basra that is marked completed despite the fact that it's only 35 percent up and running. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Whistleblowers Expose State Department Bushie

Staff / Truthdig Sep 19, 2007 Rep. Henry Waxman has accused the State Department's top oversight official of looking out for the best interests of the Bush administration, and not the American taxpayer. A number of current and former subordinates of the State Department's inspector general contacted Waxman to report interference with investigations into fraud and corruption in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

CIA Report Blames Tenet for 9/11 Failure

Staff / Truthdig Aug 22, 2007 A newly released internal CIA report lays the "ultimate blame" for a lack of strategy to combat al-Qaida before 9/11 on former Director George Tenet, who calls the charge "flat wrong." Congress ordered the declassification of the scathing document, which was completed in 2005. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘They tried to attach themselves to his virtue; then they wiped their feet with him.’–Mary Tillman

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Mar 8, 2006 With the Pentagon's inspector general suggesting criminal negligence in the killing of former NFL star and Army Ranger Pat Tillman, it is time to demand congressional hearings into the way the Bush administration cynically spun the story to serve its political purposes at the expense of the truth. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )