The Newest Loyal Bushie

The inspector general of the State dept. who is supposed to be an independent “watchdog” appears to be......surprise, surprise, yet another loyal bushie, and Henry Waxman doesn't seem to be very happy:

“One consistent element in these allegations is that you believe your foremost mission is to support the Bush administration, especially with respect to Iraq and Afghanistan, rather than act as an independent and objective check on waste, fraud and abuse on behalf of U.S. taxpayers,”

Well, smack my ass and call me spanky, what possibly could have Waxman so cranky, you ask? Oh just a few minor things, not much really. The loyal bushie merely:

* Refused to send “any investigators” into Iraq and Afghanistan to “pursue investigations into wasteful spending or procurement fraud.”
* Stalled investigators from cooperating with a “Justice Department investigation into waste, fraud, and abuse relating to the new U.S. Embassy in Iraq.”
* Used “irregular” and incomplete investigative procedures to help exonerate a prime contractor of the U.S. embassy in Iraq of charges of labor trafficking.
* Impeded investigators’ efforts to cooperate with a Justice probe into allegations that a “large private security contractor was smuggling weapons into Iraq.”
* Interfered with an on-going investigation “into the conduct of Kenneth Tomlinson, the head of Voice of America and a close associate of Karl Rove.”
* Censored portions of inspection reports on embassies so that information on security vulnerabilities was “not disclosed to Congress.”
The report adds that under Krongard, the IG office has seen an “exodus of trained staff” as “people come to work every day fearful” of his “daily antagonism.”
*There have been allegations that the contractor First Kuwaiti used forced labor building the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. So Krongard looked into it.
First, he insisted on doing the report entirely by himself and shut out his staff. And instead of seeking out the source of the allegations, he allowed the contractor to choose the employees that he’d interview. He ultimately interviewed six employees.
The result? Krongard declared that he found no evidence of human trafficking.

War, what is it good for? The answer is obvious......BIG PROFIT$ FOR LOYAL REPUBLICUNT SUPPORTER$, and cronies. And for a "small price." Fucking fucknozzles.

Let Freedom Reign!