US cooking Iraq books

by Joe on July 29, 2006

Apparently the State Department has been lying to Congress about the true cost and schedules of reconstruction projects in Iraq. An audit revealed it hid construction overruns by listing them as overhead or administrative costs–in one case exceeding the original budgeted cost by more than 400%. It’s good to know our tax dollars are hard at work.

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