Now where did it go?

Sep 16, 2007 20:23

I posted a long time ago about the Commerce Department losing a bunch of laptops.  Since then I read about purchase orders being passed through for outrageous sums of money for nuts and bolts and that kind of thing -  not sure where that article was but two sisters put through orders with 6 figures for shipping fees.  They found a loophole in a ( Read more... )

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pb9617 September 17 2007, 14:23:25 UTC
The sheer size of the government allows for this kind of lunacy.

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wild_irises September 17 2007, 14:40:57 UTC
I just read yesterday that the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security cannot pass the most basic audits the accounting industry can devise, and that Homeland Security has never been able to do so.

This is not a factor of size of government.

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dkuznick September 18 2007, 17:24:55 UTC
I worked for a government contractor once and I saw this kind of stuff first hand.

BTW, did you get the email I sent you re: law school?

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