It's the same sort of transparency we've seen in Cheney's energy commission and the Dynamic Duo's "meeting" with the 9/11 Commission. Their disdain for accountability and transparency seems to have no bounds:
The Bush administration is withholding information from U.N.-sanctioned auditors examining more than $1 billion in contracts awarded to Halliburton Co. and other companies in Iraq without competitive bidding, the head of the international auditing board said Thursday.I suppose this kind of reticence is not so surprising from BushCo., but the sheer scope of misdeeds uncovered boggle the mind.
The audit, which covers May 2003 to December 2003, asserts that the coalition's management of Iraq's oil was plagued by "inadequate" bookkeeping and accounting systems, high turnover among coalition finance officials and a disregard for procedures designed to ensure competitive bidding for contracts. KPMG is planning to produce a second audit that covers the coalition's management of the program through June 2004.If there were any justice in the world anymore, Bush, Cheney and a boat-load of their evil minions would be doing the perp-walk on CNN right now.
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KPMG outlined a series of other shortcomings, including the coalition's failure to install meters on Iraq's Persian Gulf export loading platforms, making it impossible to determine how much oil Iraq was exporting. KPMG said that it was unable to verify independently the value of crude oil Iraq bartered for Syrian electricity.
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