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Clinton’s State Department Blew $6 Billion In Contracts, And We’re About To Learn Why
The Daily Caller ^ | 08/19/2016 | Ethan Barton

Posted on 08/19/2016 11:32:30 AM PDT by detective

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton may soon have to answer questions about an estimated $6 billion in contract mismanagement, fraud and incompetence that happened under her watch at the Department of State.

Non-profit government watchdog Cause of Action Institute (CofA) filed a Freedom of Information Act request Friday for records related to a March 2014 management alert issued by the department’s Inspector General (IG).

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: clinton; corruption; hillarystatedept; moneymissing; statedepartment; statedeptfoia; statedeptig
Modifications and task orders were awarded to a company owned by the spouse of the State Department official managing the $52 million contract. The contract’s file was missing documentation reflecting those modifications and task orders.

None of the files reviewed by the IG for eight contracts issued by the department’s Bureau of African Affairs and valued at $34.8 million contained required documentation.

Crooked Hillary ran the State Department like a personal piggy bank for the politically connected. Billions of taxpayer dollars went to the corrupt insiders. Nothing was documented.

This is theft on the scale of billions.

1 posted on 08/19/2016 11:32:30 AM PDT by detective
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“Modifications and task orders were awarded to a company owned by the spouse of the State Department official managing the $52 million contract.”

Robert Kagan??


2 posted on 08/19/2016 11:36:58 AM PDT by maggief
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To: detective

This FOIA request is about a year late. Given the State Department’s pattern of obstruction and non-compliance with requests for information on all things Clinton, there is no way any information comes to light before November. If the request had been made a year ago, we might get something.


3 posted on 08/19/2016 11:36:59 AM PDT by henkster
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The hubris is staggering. It is not as if the Clintons as a couple were unknown in their tendencies. She and her husband were criminal in office in Arkansas, in DC, in NY and then in the Sec State office.

It is almost impossible to believe in clean government since the Clinton’s rose to power.


4 posted on 08/19/2016 11:37:42 AM PDT by KC Burke (Consider all of my posts as first drafts. (Apologies to L. Niven))
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But was it INTENTIONAL? She was probably just too busy, out doing good and saving the world, to trouble herself or her staff with keeping records on the billions of dollars that are missing.


5 posted on 08/19/2016 11:39:23 AM PDT by NEMDF
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“She was probably just too busy, out doing good and saving the world, to trouble herself or her staff with keeping records on the billions of dollars that are missing.”

I wonder how much of this money ended up in the Clinton Foundation.


6 posted on 08/19/2016 11:42:19 AM PDT by detective
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Trump needs to clean house at the State Department
whe he becomes President.
Corruption is running rampant.


7 posted on 08/19/2016 11:43:07 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: henkster

The Clinton Crime Machine is so multi-layered and labyrinthine that it takes months to find a thread to pursue. Even then, it takes many more months to get to the point that you need to file a FOIA request to unravel that thread any further. This is by design.


8 posted on 08/19/2016 11:43:48 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: detective
Another $6 billion...


9 posted on 08/19/2016 11:53:56 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: detective

“Crooked Hillary ran the State Department like a personal piggy bank for the politically connected. Billions of taxpayer dollars went to the corrupt insiders. Nothing was documented.

This is theft on the scale of billions.”

If she becomes President the looting of the Treasury will be on a grand scale.


10 posted on 08/19/2016 12:14:07 PM PDT by Parley Baer (")
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cross index to state dept personnel then cross index to xlintonista foundation donors.


11 posted on 08/19/2016 12:15:55 PM PDT by thinden
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12 posted on 08/19/2016 12:18:10 PM PDT by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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“cross index to state dept personnel then cross index to xlintonista foundation donors.”

You mean something like checking why millions in ‘refunds’for income tax get sent to ONE ADDRESS in Atlanta ? ( Reportedly )


13 posted on 08/19/2016 12:25:27 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long)
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To: henkster

Maybe not. They are asking for an IG report. It would come from the IG office not the state department.


14 posted on 08/19/2016 12:32:33 PM PDT by PJammers (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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6 BILLION DOLLARS!!!! How many STARVING children would that feed???


15 posted on 08/19/2016 1:01:22 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: detective


16 posted on 08/19/2016 3:29:54 PM PDT by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING!)
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>6 BILLION DOLLARS!!!! How many STARVING children would that feed???

Depends 1) If the owners of said property decided to donate to that cause 2) Presumes GOVT would do a better job of feeding said ‘starving children’ than a public charity\foundation\etc.

Unfortunately, we have an illegal, unconstitutional Democracy, so #1 is right out and, as I can think of NOTHING the govt has touched that was within A1S8\done ‘well’, #2 follows suit.

Now, if you were asking a rhetorical question.... /s


17 posted on 08/19/2016 5:44:17 PM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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