Auditors go easy on military contractors

Instead of seeing red, Pentagon audit managers saw business as usual after being told that a major military contractor failed to open all its books for review.

At a meeting of Defense Contract Audit Agency staff in California last May, auditor Acacia Rodriguez used a 24-page PowerPoint briefing to describe how she and her co-workers struggled with the Bechtel Group's "chronic failure" to provide the financial records required to prove tax dollars ... Full Story »

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Patricia L'Herrou
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by Patricia L'Herrou - Nov. 10, 2008

this is a good beginning of a story which needs more depth to provide more context on the pentagon's relationship with bechtel and on so many stories on the pentagon's spending practices during the war in iraq. there's one mention of a congressional hearing and no reports on what happened since. what's described here sounds similar to the recent airlines/faa practices

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