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December 07, 2007
Krongard Resigns
The US State Department's top investigator, inspector general Howard Krongard, is resigning after being battered by allegations that he thwarted and halted investigations that might be embarrassing to the Bush Administration. Those investigations included claims of labor trafficking and poor work at the US embassy in Baghdad (related stories here, here , here, here and here), the possibility of arms trafficking by Blackwater and other matters.
Here's the Reuters bulletin.
The Washington Post fills in some details, but glosses over the allegations of labor trafficking by the embassy contractor -- probably because it was a story broken by non-mainstream media despite the fact that mainstream reporters are frequent visitors to this blog, including those with The Washington Post.
Will this be an end to the questions Krongard neglected to investigate? Or did his apparent foot-dragging cover up any tracks of wrongdoing? Stay tuned.
Posted by davidphinney at December 7, 2007 04:39 PM
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