https://marco.org/2008/05/23/a-pentagon-audit-of-8-2-billion-in-american
A Pentagon audit of $8.2 billion in American taxpayer money spent by the United States Army on contractors in Iraq has found that almost none of the payments followed federal rules and that in some cases, contracts worth millions of dollars were paid for despite little or no record of what, if anything, was received.
— Iraq Spending Ignored Rules, Pentagon Says - NYTimes.com (via skidder)