From The New York Times, 11/3/06:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/middleeast/03reconstruct.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1162530000&en=797e826ed9357ea0&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin
Congress Tells Auditor in Iraq to Close Office
By JAMES GLANZ
Investigations led by a Republican lawyer named Stuart W. Bowen Jr. in
Iraq have sent American occupation officials to jail on bribery and
conspiracy charges, exposed disastrously poor construction work by
well-connected companies like Halliburton and Parsons, and discovered
that the military did not properly track hundreds of thousands of
weapons it shipped to Iraqi security forces.
Mr. Bowen’s office has inspected and audited taxpayer-financed
projects like this prison in Nasiriya, Iraq.
And tucked away in a huge military authorization bill that President
Bush signed two weeks ago is what some of Mr. Bowen’s supporters
believe is his reward for repeatedly embarrassing the administration:
a pink slip.
The order comes in the form of an obscure provision that terminates
his federal oversight agency, the Office of the Special Inspector
General for Iraq Reconstruction, on Oct. 1, 2007.
The clause was inserted by the Republican side of the House Armed
Services Committee over the objections of Democratic counterparts
during a closed-door conference, and it has generated surprise and
some outrage among lawmakers who say they had no idea it was in the
final legislation.
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Why would you wanna know that your money's being pissed away?
Harry
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