Pentagon wasted thirty billion dollars in Iraq and Afgansta

Pentagon wasted thirty billion dollars in Iraq and Afgansta

According to Alalam.ir Website : The committee said the specialized contracts in time of war in a report submitted Wednesday to the Congress that these mistakes in the administration had hurt the United States abroad and encouraged corruption in those countriesbr /> The heads of the Committee "which includes a number of Republicans and Democrats," Christopher Shays, Michael Tebbutt in an article published by The Washington Post reported Sunday that "tens of billions of dollars of money charged wasted because of lack of planning and requests non-specific and vague, and competition is appropriate and the criteria is adequate of checks and balances "br /> They also noted problems of coordination among the many U.S. government agencies and also because of wrong behavior or negligence of federal employees and contractors alikebr /> and said "The government and contractors to do a better job"And supports the U.S. military in the last three decades to a large extent on secondary contractors and private security companies, especiallybr /> said Shays and Tebbutt, "The U.S. over-reliance on contractors," noting that 30 billion dollars and even more can be wasted if governments were Afghan or Iraqi forces "are incapable or do not want to support projects financed by the funds U.S. after the end of our intervention "br /> The Pentagon spokesman Dave Lapan, "We are very aware of the gaps""We worked hard over the past years to correct these problems when we face"br /> One of the examples cited by the Commission, at the prison $ 40 million in Iraq were not the Baghdad government "wanted did not end its work at all."br /> In Afghanistan, the United States spent $ 300 million to build a plant to generate electricity Kabul do not have the means to runbr /> The committee said that these practices have increased in recent years in spite of the promise made by President Barack Obama during his campaign to reduce recourse to derivatives contractsbr /> He called Obama after his election to promote competition in the tenders, but the report said that the contracts awarded without bids increasedbr /> Pentagon responded by saying that the war effort requires flexibility in some casesSaid Colonel Lapan said "There are a lot of cases that do not meet the needs of long tender procedures combatants" ...
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