Remember all that fuss the Bush administration made about corruption in the UN? How John Bolton was going to reform those inefficient UN beureacrats?
Well it looks like John could have started cleaning up our own administration in Iraq. What's that saying about 'those who live in glass houses'?
Former Bush Aide Turns Tough Critic As Iraq Inspector
Mr. Bowen Finds Poor Controls, Waste in Reconstruction;
Seeking Missing Millions Harsh Rebuke From BremerJuly 26, 2005
During a routine audit last summer of an American office in charge of doling out reconstruction funding in Hillah, Iraq, U.S. government investigators made a series of startling discoveries.
The office had paid a contractor twice for the same work. A U.S. official was allowed to handle millions of dollars in cash weeks after he was fired for incompetence. Of the $119.9 million allocated for regional projects, $89.4 million was disbursed without contracts or other documentation. An additional $7.2 million couldn't be found at all.
To many officials in both Baghdad and Washington, the only thing more surprising than the problems was the identity of the man who had uncovered them: Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction.
