Iraq

State Department Can't Account For $1.2 Billion Paid To Private Contractor

Posted by Stephanie Taylor on October 23, 2007 at 10:01 AM

A new report reveals that the State Department can't account for $1.2 billion paid to private contractor DynCorp. From the New York Times:

...records documenting the work of DynCorp, the State Department’s largest contractor, are in such disarray that the department cannot say "specifically what it received" for most of the $1.2 billion it has paid the company since 2004 to train the police officers in Iraq.

The State Department has three private security contractors in Iraq--Blackwater, DynCorp International and Triple Canopy. The extreme lack of oversight first came to public attention last month when Blackwater guards killed 17 Iraqi civilians.

The only response from the Bush administration was from a State Department spokesman, who said that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would "closely examine" the report’s findings.

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