Here's an oldie but goodie -- State Dept. contracts to rebuild Iraq are vulnerable to billions in waste, fraud and abuse. The Wall Street Journal's August Cole relays an Iraq special inspector general report that police training by Virginia-based company DynCorp is not being adequately monitored by State Dept. ...

Walter Pincus of the Washington Post knows how to find the nitty gritty that uncovers the big picture.  Here he picks up on a new report by the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction that uncovers (drum roll, please) . . . the $20 washer!   Aecom Inc. of ...

Ernesto Londono of the Washington Post had a disquieting piece today about how unprepared Iraq security forces are to take over when U.S. troops withdraw. There remains rampant embezzlement in the security forces and while this gross fraud was somewhat manageable when Iraq made ...

Kim Murphy had a well-reported piece in the Los Angeles Times Sunday on rampant corruption by the U.S. Iraq reconstruction team. The Justice Department has registered three dozen bribery convictions of U.S. military disbursement officers in the $3.5 billion Commander's Emergency Response Program, which ...

A new Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction audit shows that Pasadena-based contractor Parsons got $142 million in Pentagon cash for work it didn't do. Parsons was supposed to build a prison in the Diyala province as well as border patrol and courthouse stations.

But as the Washington Post's Dana ...

The Washington Post's Dana Hedgpeth reports that both investigations into Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, are now closed. Federal prosecutors and the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency, which is essentially a group of inspectors general policing other inspectors general, had been investigating Bowen for ...

After $20 billion of Pentagon money, the 530,000 paid Iraq security forces are still years away from bringing security to Iraq.  USA Today’s Matt Kelley drew this information from the Special Inspector General of Iraq’s quarterly progress report on reconstruction. The reports finds that while 530,000 forces are on the ...

Is this a great country or what?  Come on -- buck up, people!  Every day there are indications that this government works and that the Republic may actually survive for a while yet.  I mean, where else but in America could you have a major investigation into the investigating arm of government?  If anyone else is doing it, I still say we do it better.