Fraud Crackdown Will Not Include Iraq or Afghanistan

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This is just classic. The Bush Administration vows to crack down on fraud in government funding. Then, it comes out that this crack down will not include monies going overseas. Whaaa? There's no fraud overseas? In Afghanistan? In Iraq, where $9,000,000,000 or so of shrink-wrapped cold hard cash just disappeared? Come on.

Oh, and by the way, why isn't that missing money a huge issue? For all the belly-aching you hear about "my tax dollars" funding this or that, why aren't tax payers getting out the pitchforks and torches over billions and billions of missing money?

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Fraud crackdown comes with a loophole

A Bush administration plan to crack down on contract fraud has a multibillion-dollar loophole: The proposal to force companies to report abuse of taxpayer money will not apply to work overseas, including projects to secure and rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan. . .

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