Thursday, December 20, 2007

Iraq Embassy Project Chief "Retires"

Warren P. Strobel at McClatchy Newspapers reports on the $740M project chief's "retirement":

... Retired Army Maj. Gen. Charles Williams is the third senior State Department official to depart amid failures in managing the burgeoning U.S. diplomatic presence in Iraq. The department's inspector general and head of diplomatic security also have resigned.

...Criminal investigations into shoddy work and the awarding of subcontracts are under way. The State Department also is under fire for awarding a sole-source, fixed-price contract to build the compound to First Kuwaiti General Trading and Contracting Co., a Lebanese-owned Kuwaiti firm....


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