
A daily roundup of just-released investigative reports, drawn from oversight agencies, congressional committees, and government offices across Washington.
IRAQ: “Status of the Defense Emergency Response Fund in Support of the Global War on Terror” (Defense Department’s Inspector General). Finds that not all funding from the Defense Emergency Response Fund was used as intended, and the Defense Department needs to transfer a total of $260 million to the Treasury Department because the law to transfer that money to the Iraq Freedom Fund has expired.
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A judge’s decision that his court was not the proper venue for a dispute between a Kuwaiti firm and the family of an American soldier killed in Iraq illustrates the many legal and moral complexities arising from the U.S military’s widespread involvement with foreign contractors. Read more
On Monday the congressionally-created Wartime Contracting Commission will hold a hearing on Defense Department logistics contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The commission might want to begin by looking at a case PaperTrail has learned about, where the government’s oversight has been less than ideal. Read more
The Pentagon seems to have some trouble keeping track of its materiel. The latest items to go missing? Night-vision devices. Read more

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