Middle America's Worldview

While the news feeds continue to whisper a possible Hillary Clinton for President In 2016, others are asking, where’s the money? The U.S. State Department lost an astounding 6 billion (with a B) dollars while Clinton played Secretary of State.


Money? What Money?

 The cash was to be used in paying contractors. However, the cash and the documents that would allow a paper trail to determine its whereabouts disappeared. We have $6 billion tax dollars gone. We have the proper paperwork to help locate the $6 billion dollars also gone.

Anyone check Sandy Berger’s pants?

“An inability to file paperwork properly and a “lack of internal control at the department has led to billions of unaccounted dollars over the last six years,” State Department Inspector General Steve Linick said in a “management alert” made public Thursday.”

This knowledge was provided by a released IG’s alert. The alert was published on March 20, but only made available to the public this week.


The report provides insight on several examples of “poor contract file administration”. One example provided in the report identified 33 missing contracts worth a total of $2.1 billion dollars.

48 out of 82 contracts were found missing the required documentation required by federal law.

Papers? What Papers?

Another case showed a contract file conveniently omitted that a $52 million deal was awarded to a company owned by the spouse of another State Department contractor employee performing as a specialist.

In other cited cases a contracting officer actually falsified government technical review information in a $100 million deal and a contracting officer’s representative allowed nearly $800,000 to be paid on a deal with no official documents to support the payment. It’s the free-flow of public funds under extremely suspicious circumstances.

Only Contracting Officers have the authority to contractually bind the United States Government. This authority is vested in the executive agency, which then delegates this authority by issuing a certificate of appointment or “warrant.”

The U.S. Department of State does provide a contracting officer handbook. I have yet been able to identify specific names of the contracting officer(s).

As the government continues to grow, we will only see more of these scandals or ineptness of our government continues. Will we see Hillary Clinton before Congress once again, this time being questioned
about the $6 billion dollars missing, due to negligence or poor management?