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November 07, 2007
TIME: Baghdad Embassy and Inspectors General
Looks like the new sprawling Baghdad embassy won't be complete until next year according to Time despite State Department assurances it would be finished last September:
The new embassy compound will make life for diplomats in Iraq much more comfortable when it opens next year at a date still to be determined.TIME also takes on the inspectors general question: Is Bush Corrupting the Watchdogs?
The latest, and perhaps the most egregious, IG abuse to come to light has been at the State Department, where IG Howard Krongard is alleged to have repeatedly thwarted investigations into contracting fraud in the $3.6 billion spending that State has overseen in Iraq and Afghanistan, including the new U.S. embassy, which is racked with problems.
For more on Inspector General Krongard's investigative prowess, see Baghdad Embassy Investigated for Labor Trafficking and Abuse.
Posted by davidphinney at November 7, 2007 08:20 PM
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Like your site.
My mother was a Phinney and Mayflower descendant. Are you by chance related to the Phinney's in New England? Mom's dad, Carl Phinney was from Plympton, MA, formerly a part of Plymouth.
I've been working on our genealogy. Would love hearing from you. I live in Central Massachusetts
Posted by: Carol Bradford at November 9, 2007 09:11 AM