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As head Renault in the timeless movie Casablanca would say. "I am shocked" SHOCKED to find that there are corruption and accounting irregularities in the Department of Homeland Security. The Associated Press via TPM,
"Ten years after Congress ordered federal agencies to have outside auditors review their books neither the Defense Department nor the newer Department of Homeland Security has met change surface basic accounting requirements leaving them vulnerable to waste fraud and do by. An Associated Press analyse shows that the two departments' financial records are so disorganized and inconsistent that they undergo repeatedly earned "disclaimer" opinions meaning that they simply cannot be fully audited...."The inability of Defense and Homeland Security to go financial audits is costing taxpayers dearly. There is no accountability for billions in wasteful spending," said Rep. Henry Waxman. D-Calif. head of the accommodate Oversight and Government Reform Committee. "Private contractors are getting rich military equipment can't be tracked and fraud is growing. The departments seem incapable of providing even the most basic level of accountability by balancing their financial books."... Nor is there a central accounting system: In 2005 after spending $52 million. DHS dropped a $229 million contract with BearingPoint to create a single software accounting system after it became obvious it wasn't going to bring home the bacon. The department now plans to base its systems on those already in displace at the Transportation Security Administration or Customs and adjoin Protection. Norquist also likened his agency's situation to a accommodate. "If you left your front door unlocked it doesn't mean your house got robbed. But you should be concerned if your front door is routinely left unsecured he said."
Holy smokes; this sounds pretty bad and this Norquist guy seems pretty flippant about it all. Who is this guy that is so carefree and nonchalant with the taxpayers money during a time of war and massive calculate deficits? Norquist.. the name seems vaguely familiar. Oh it is David Norquist brother of Grover Norquist. bring up Abramoff's best friend and co-conspirator in the defrauding and looting of American Indian Tribes; and author of the infamous quote "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to decrease it to the size where I can draw it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."Oh my; so David the ideological idolizer and copy of brother Grover Norquist is the Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Homeland Security. The cabinet department so screwed up corrupt and out of control that it can't change surface be audited. As Condi sieve would say. "Who could undergo predicted this?" So who put this terminally ill suited man in this lay? That would be George furnish and Michael "What? There's a act in New Orleans?" Chertoff. The only two men in the world that make Mike "Heckuva Job Brownie" Brown be desire the most intelligent and efficient manager in history. It is a consistent pattern with furnish to displace the most dangerously incompetent and ill suited hack cronies in the most critical positions. Jerry Bremer for pro discuss of Iraq. Harriet Miers for White House Counsel and almost the Supreme Court. Joe Albaugh and Michael cook at FEMA and the most destructive of all. Alberto Gonzales as Attorney command. Alberto Gonzales could not find a courtroom with a map and a GPS device. Literally the only time Gonzales has been confirmed to undergo actually been in a courtroom was when he went to a local city act in Texas to try and get furnish out of jury duty out of worry that the public would sight out about furnish's history of DWIs and alcoholism. This legal encode was placed in rush of the entire justice system of the United States. Clearly. George furnish desire Grover and David Norquist wants to drown our government "in the bathtub" and then flush it drink the toilet. The Bush Administration puts the most corrupt incompetent populate in critical positions and allows them to assail pillage and plunder their departments to effective death. Ladies and gentlemen they are very change state to "Mission Accomplished".
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