The Iraq Analysis site site is accumulating an impressive amount of new content at the moment.
Among it is a fairly damning statement from the
IAMB
on contract management in Iraq:
The KPMG audit of the 23 sole sourced contracts revealed exceptions in a number of cases including
* (i) insufficient documentation to justify non-competitive contracting action,
* (ii) lack of support for the provision of services or receipts of goods, and
* (iii) discrepancies in the amount billed.
And then they recomment “_ that amounts disbursed to contractors that cannot be supported as fair be reimbursed expeditiously_”
So, one more point goes to those distrustful anti-american anti-corporate types.
On a similar topic, somebody from Corpwatch (the US one) has written this book about the economic end of the war. It might be horribly out-of-date by now (it was published November 2004), but then everything on Iraq seems out of date at the moment. I’m planning to read it anyway, if I can get hold of a copy.