Commission unveils war fraud, seals records for 20 years
donal brown
November 1, 2011
After uncovering $60 billion in contractor waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Commission on Wartime Contracting buried its internal records for 20 years. The Commission did release 8 reports and publish recommendations to avoid waste and fraud, but the decision to block access to the internal records and source material prevents the public and nonprofits from building on the work of the Commission, writes Jake Wiens, an investigator for POGO. -db From a