The loophole, quietly slipped last year into a proposed Bush administration rule, would allow companies performing government work overseas to avoid having to report contract abuse. Contract fraud has cost taxpayers $14 million in bribes alone out at least $102 billion spent in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003. |
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Amanda Lang was a wonderful member of the Opednews team, and the first volunteer editor, for a good number of years being a senior editor. She passed away summer 2014.