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James Rainey for The Los Angeles Times reports, "The House of Representatives moved Thursday to crack down on a Pentagon program that Democrats say planted false and overly optimistic news stories about the Iraq war, using military analysts who appeared regularly on television."

http://www.truthout.org/article/house-aims-pentagon-propaganda-iraq-war



Audit: Iraq Contracts Skirted Fraud Rules

The Associated Press: "An internal audit of some $8 billion paid to US and Iraqi contractors found that nearly every transaction failed to comply with federal laws or regulations aimed at preventing fraud, in some cases lacking even basic invoices explaining how the money was spent."

http://www.truthout.org/article/audit-iraq-contracts-skirted-fraud-rules

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Spending On Iraq Poorly Tracked

By Dana Hedgpeth

The inspector general for the Defense Department said yesterday that the Pentagon cannot account for almost $15 billion worth of goods and services ranging from trucks, bottled water and mattresses to rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns that were bought from contractors in the Iraq reconstruction effort.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19978.htm



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