World-News

Washington Post

08/31/11

On Aug. 12, 2003, a Gulfstream IV aircraft carrying six passengers took off from Dulles International Airport .... The Gulfstream IV s itinerary, as well as the $339,228.05 price tag for the journey, are among the details of shadowy CIA flights that have emerged in a small Upstate New York courthouse in a billing dispute between contractors...

http://wapo.st/nLDyYy



Panel tallies massive waste and fraud in wartime US contracts

CNN

08/31/11

A nonpartisan panel reporting to Congress says the United States is wasting $12 million a day among contracts issued in support of American efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Commission on Wartime Contracting spent the past three years documenting whether American funding went where it was supposed to. The findings show misdirected money has totaled between $31 billion and $60 billion, and that both the government and the contractors are to blame for fraud and waste...

http://tinyurl.com/43u9l6a


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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