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Monday, April 07, 2008

Bush administration misses deadline

By realitybasedbob on April 7, 2008 at 06:07 pm
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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has delayed delivering documents to Congress explaining how a multibillion-dollar loophole exempting overseas work from scrutiny was slipped into a rule intended to crack down on fraud in government contracts.

A House panel will hear April 15 from White House and other administration officials about the loophole, which drew protests from Democrats and Republican lawmakers alike and been disavowed by Attorney General Michael Mukasey.

“If this loophole was a bureaucratic mistake as some in the administration have claimed, then our requests should be easy to meet,” Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said in a statement Monday. “This should be simple. Someone in the administration made this change and it should be easy to explain why. A delay only raises more questions.”

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atease

Proposed by the Justice Department last year, the rule aims to weed out and prosecute waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars spent on pricey government contracts.

One can stop reading at this point in the article.  When has DC weeded out any waste..?  Pure BS no matter how it is sliced…

atease

atease on April 7, 2008 at 07:42 pm
Bat One

Is there any truth to the rumor that Hillary Clinton has been secretly advising the Bush administration on how to delay turning over to Congressional and Justice Department investigators requested or subpoenaed documents?

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on April 7, 2008 at 09:07 pm
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