By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--April 4, 2014
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The report centered on State Department contracts worth “more than $6 billion in which contract files were incomplete or could not be located at all,” according to the alert. “The failure to maintain contract files adequately creates significant financial risk and demonstrates a lack of internal control over the Department’s contract actions,” the alert states. The situation “creates conditions conducive to fraud, as corrupt individuals may attempt to conceal evidence of illicit behavior by omitting key documents from the contract file,” the report concluded. The State Department’s inability to properly file its paperwork is causing most of the losses, according to the report. The IG “found repeated examples of poor contract file administration” over the years, the report said.Now let's say this in fairness to Hillary: It does not appear this started under her. But it is just as clear that it continued unabated during her entire tenure without her doing the slightest thing to correct it. Maybe the problem's pre-Hillary origins could be used as a political defense of her, but should they be? The country has huge problems, and it might be nice to elect a president who has demonstrated some ability to come in to an organization and correct poor practices heretofore in place. Does anyone seriously believe Hillary Clinton is that kind of manager? Because if they do, they're a fool. Add this to the list of Hillary's non-accomplishments, which make up a very long list of non-reasons anyone should even be thinking about her as a prospective president. Someone you would consider electing president should be a person with an impressive list of achievements as a leader, a manager and a policy thinker, in addition to being honest and trustworthy. So there's five things:
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