Early Friday Data Dump?-The audit of the CPA in Iraq

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JudiLyn's LBN article here

Officials of the former Coalition Provisional Authority did not have records to justify the $24.7 million cost for replacing Iraq's currency, according to the report from the authority's inspector general. The report also said the authority paid nearly $200,000 for 15 police trucks without knowing if the trucks were delivered.

The agency's defenders say it did the best it could given the pressure of operating in a war zone and trying to get reconstruction going quickly.

The investigators reviewed 43 contracts and found 29 had incomplete or missing documentation.

The authority's inspector general released a report this week saying that the company responsible for the largest logistics contract in Iraq had lost track of more than $18 million worth of equipment including vehicles and electric generators.

The report said investigators could not track down 52 of 164 randomly selected items in an inventory of more than 20,000 items overseen by KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton. The missing items included two electric generators worth nearly $1 million, 18 trucks or sport utility vehicles and six laptop computers.