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June 8, 2009

Panel Finds Lax Oversight of Wartime Contracting
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An independent commission investigating waste and fraud in wartime
spending has found the Pentagon has failed to provide adequate oversight
over tens of billions of dollars in contracts to support military
operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Wartime Contracting Commission
found US reliance on private-sector employees has grown to
“unprecedented proportions,” yet the government has no central database
of who all these contractors are, what they do, or how much they’re
paid.



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