-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! <A HREF="http://www.vetsforbush.net/vetsforbush.netx.html">VetsforBush.net - VETERANS STAND - Gore Waste</A> http://www.vetsforbush.net/vetsforbush.netx.html CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATORS LINK GORE PROGRAM TO MASSIVE FRAUD, WASTE, AND ABUSE OF HISTORICAL PROPORTIONS -- PART 1 ARLINGTON, VA (Sep 26) - Of all of Al Gore’s highly publicized fibs and exaggerations, his “Reinventing Goverment” program may turn out to be his biggest “dirty little secret” yet, and the administration’s greatest scandal -- one that impacts national security, the budget, and every government-run program on the books. A little-publicized congressional and General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation, concluded in September 1998, but largely buried until now, indicates that Vice President Al Gore’s “Reinventing Government” program was directly tied to, and largely responsible for, a massive growth in government and contracting fraud, theft, and corruption cases during the Clinton Administration -- fraud in which literally “trillions” of dollars in bookkeeping figures were “manipulated up and down, back and forth,” to hide untold billions of dollars in fraud and thefts. The investigator told VetsforBush.net that in CY 1999 alone, a sum total of $6.7 Trillion in “adjustments”were made to cover incredible levels of mismanagement, neglect and criminal activities. Speaking on condition of anonymity, one of the investigators -- an expert on fraud, waste, and abuse in general, and the “Gore-connection” in particular -- said that while the increase in government-related abuses were known and discussed within certain Capitol Hill congressional committees, few legislators and virtually no one in the public sector had drawn the connection between an historical descent into “utter chaos” in government accounting procedures and Al Gore’s direct oversight in reshaping government bureaucracy. The significance of the Gore-Chaos-Corruption connection is that previous disclosures during the Clinton era focused on the President or his White House staffers, allowing the Vice President to deflect criticism as not falling within his personal or professional bailiwick. The congressional and GAO investigators believe that Gore’s ill-conceived and poorly executed “Reinventing Government” programs resulted in fiscal responsibility and financial accounting safeguards being “tossed out the window.” The implications, the source said, are staggering not only for the Defense Department (DOD) programs they examined and the military readiness standards that have been devastated, but for any government programs affected by Gore’s “Reinvention” program. The programs affected may constitute virtually all aspects of the Executive Branch’s Federal Government offices and their domestic, foreign, and financial programs, including Social Security, Medicare, the military, and all procurement and acquisition channels government-wide. “Contrary to popular opinion, and even sentiment in the Congress,” the source said, “the problem is not with levels of congressional budget allocations. We already have enough money in the budget to deal with all programs on the books. The problem is with fraud, waste, and abuse. We have more money than we can responsibly control.” The investigator commented that if Texas Governor George W. Bush were elected President, one of his first priorities might be to undertake a GAO or independent audit of the entire Clinton-Gore era handling of accounting, and should form an independent commission akin to the Grace Commission formed by President Ronald Reagon early in his administration. “There has always been graft in government and contracting circles,” the investigator admitted, “and we have prosecuted them before, and even during the Clinton years. The problem is that under Gore’s program of reinventing government, accounting irresponsibility, mismanagement, fraud, waste, abuse, and -- in spite of high-sounding words -- the ‘acceptable level of corruption’ have reached historic proportions.” As an example, the investigator cited some of the “buzz-words” and definitions instituted under the Gore program that generated or facilitated an estimated $6.7 Trillion in “fiscal manipulation of figures” to allow accounting mistakes, oversights, and fraud to be “adjusted,” rearranged, or even covered-up in CY 1999 alone. This is not to say, the investigator explained, that the acutal monetary values involved were $6.7 Trillion, but rather that the sum total of “back-and-forth, top-to-bottom” numbers that were finagled totaled that amount. “Financial adjustments,” he said, “is itself a code word for not only correcting legitimate errors and oversights, but for covering the institutionalization of fraud and for ‘cooking the books.’” Under the Gore Reinvention program, any incident of fraud less than $100,000 is considered, “Budget Dust,” or a sum too insignificant to even bother investigating. The source noted several cases where contractors, civilian and even active duty procurement officers routinely and frequently submitted outright false claims for amounts of $13,000 to $20,000 a pop --right inside government procurement offices --only to put the money in their personal bank accounts with impunity. “The ones we’ve caught aren’t even the tip of the iceberg,” the investigator said. “We’ve finally reached a state of ‘Utter Chaos,’” -- the investigators’ unofficial term for the state of affairs that exists under the Gore-induced accounting nightmare. "People know they can get away with almost anything under this administation." The investigative source pointed out that general conclusions to the problem can be found in official-use only reports under review by Senator Charles Grassley’s office, as well as in two published staff reports, namely the “Staff Report of Joint Review of Internal Controls at Department of Defense” (September 1998 by USAF Management Systems Deputy A. Ernest Fitzgerald and Legislative Assistant Charles Murphy) and a GAO report entitled “Financial Management: Improvements Needed in Air Force Vendor Payment Systems and Controls,” (September 1998). While the bureaucratic titles of the reports are typically innocuous in their nomenclature, and are focused primarily on Air Force cases, the investigator said that levels of theft and outright fraud pervade the entire Defense apparatus and affect national security to its very foundations. “We are paying millions, even billions of dollars, for stuff that we don’t even know is actually produced. The material and parts, if they are produced at all, are often so poorly made, or out-sourced to foreign manufacturers, that our forces are in physical jeopardy or our logistical lines vulnerable like never before in our history.” While the investigator stopped well short of accusing the Vice President of personally condoning corruption or being aware of the graft taking place under him as number two man in the White House, he did make it clear that Gore’s mismanagement, nonfeasance, and lack of hands-on leadership and misunderstanding of reality directly contributed to the abilities of thieves, frauds, and scam artists to bilk the government out of billions of dollars and threaten national security for decades to come. AL GORE’S “REINVENTION” THEORIES CONTRIBUTE TO CORRUPTION Following is a short list of “terms” and examples of the appalling conditions that the investigator says have developed since Gore instituted his “Reinventing Goverment” program” “Harmonizing” -- the term used for making hardware specifications meet the product, not the other way around. Manufacturers are permitted to make shoddy military and defense parts or equipment, and the standards are written after the production. Quality control, which can save lives in combat, has virtually disappeared under Gore and Clinton, unless companies themselves have pride in their work. While some corrupt contractors contend that “quality cannot be inspected INTO a product,” the investigator points out that “products can be inspected FOR quality.” “Pay and Chase” -- The practice of paying bills without knowing if services were actually performed or products genuinely produced, much less delivered. An estimated $ 22 Billion per Month in outright fraudulent scams is believed by the investigators to slip by the government in the DOD milieu alone, due to managerial unwillingness to verify receipts with services. Under Gore, “Pay and Chase” has replaced “Verify and Pay,” the investigators alleged. (How many military retirees could have their medical expenses paid with this kind of money?) “Budget Dust” -- The term given by Gore-era managers to any suspected incident of theft, fraud, waste, or abuse under the amount of $100,000. In other words, if scam artists and companies steal in lumps of $99,999 or less at a time, or per invoice, they are given a virtual and perhaps literal “free ride.” “Sandwiching” -- The now-common practice of a contractor and subcontractor submitting two separate bills for the same work or service. The accounting procedures and verification processes are so shoddy, or non-existent, that both receipts are paid and rarely noticed. “Astronomical Inefficiency Rate” -- This is the assessment of GAO and congressional investigators of the accounting and verification status under the Gore-Clinton-Cohen Defense Department. The investigators assume that a similar condition exists in nearly every other Federal program and Agency in the Clinton-Gore government. “Straight Pay,” -- The practice of submitting outright phony documents and receipts for obligations never verified by accounting managers. “Fast Track” -- The accounting procedure and technique under the Reinventing Government program that allows managers to make up “new numbers” to account for increases in unexpected or fraudulent obligations. “Journal-Value Transfer Technique”-- This is the managerial practice of covering up fraud, waste, and abuse that is in excess of the “$100,000 “budget dust” amounts, and can hide upwards of $200 Million in fraudulent claims and payments such as investigators found in the C-17, SEAWOLF, AND V-22 procurement programs. This involves moving or transferring cost overruns from one category where the amount would attract attention, to another category, or several, where it will not be noticed. (The investigator said that the fancy-sounding new term used to be called “cooking the books.”) “Fallacy of False Alternatives” -- This, the investigator said, involves the Administration’s use of “Myriad Formless Threats” to fool the public and the political opposition into believing that unspecified dangers exist to the point where unnecessary alternatives must be accepted or disaster will befall the country. The “Y2K Scare” and the more recent “Heating Oil-Strategic Oil Reserve Release” are but two examples among thousands believed in operation. “Myriad Formless Threats” -- Contrived, vague, or unreal threats designed to divert attention away from genuine concerns. A variation of “Wagging the Dog.” “Utter Chaos” -- The term investigators apply to the abysmal state of fiscal accountability and managerial responsibility under Gore’s Government Reinvention. “Missile Skins Full of Junk” -- An assessment of uninspected missiles being sent to the field under regulations that do not allow for quality control inspections or proper examination of armaments ranging from TOW anti-tank weapons to PATRIOT missiles. “The Lost Art of Double Entry Bookkeeping” -- The outmoded, but once reliable, bookkeeping method of making certain that “accounts receivable” matched “accounts payable,” or that the “books were balanced.” Today, the investigator said, not only are the accounts receivable not verified, but there is not even an attempt to balance the books. New and often fraudulent expenses are simply added at will to the national debt and are lost in the morass of paper. THE DILEMMA AND TRAGEDY One Defense Contractor with a history of anti-corruption investigations, sat in on the source’s briefing. The contractor noted that the level of fraud, waste, and abuse perpetrated by criminal elements operating under the Clinton-Gore bureaucratic “largesse” make it difficult for honest corporations to conduct business. The level of corruption under the Clinton-Gore administration is so high, he said, that “Only the crooks get paid on time.” When asked what could be done about the deplorable situation affecting national security and readiness, the investigator reiterated his call for a major audit and accounting. “If Governor Bush is elected President, his first order of business should be a top-to-bottom audit of Gore’s reinvented government apparatus.” All the money in the world needed to pay for legitimate social programs, pay-down the debt, defend the nation, create surpluses, fund education, medical research, pay for health-care costs, and still provide tax relief, is probably already at hand -- but in the hands of the corrupt. “Anyone who thinks Al Gore is the solution to our national problems, doesn’t understand the degree to which he is responsible for those problems and the neglect he has created that fosters them,” the investigator indicated. 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