Totally unreal. Apparently entire fucking palletes of cold, hard US cash completely vanishedages ago and was never reported to anyone until recently. 363 TONS of $100 bills that no one bothered to report that someone took. All money from the federal reserve. Money belonging to the US taxpayers. Gone.Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Representative Henry Waxman, kicking off hearings on government contracting, questioned former Ambassador L. Paul Bremer today on what happened to as much as $12 billion in unaccounted-for cash spent when he was in charge of rebuilding Iraq.
A report from Waxman's House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said the money represented more than half of Bremer's budget from May 2003 to June 2004. The report described contractors being told to bring big bags to collect shrink- wrapped bundles of money and one episode where a Bremer staff member was allegedly told to spend $6.75 million in a week.
``We have no way of knowing if the cash that was shipped into the green zone ended up in enemy hands,'' Waxman, a California Democrat, said at today's hearing. ``We owe it to the American people to do everything we can to find out where the $12 billion went.''
The hearings, which fulfill a Democratic campaign promise, will spotlight the use of contractors in Iraq and on homeland security under President George W. Bush, as well as spending on Medicare and Medicaid. The hearings ``will embarrass the administration,'' said James Thurber, a political science professor at American University and expert on government oversight.
What the hell is going on? Did you people really re-elect this?
