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Run Amok

by David Kurtz
12.26.07 | 2:29 pm

Spencer Ackerman has more from the motherlode that his FOIA request to the State Department has yielded.

Today, it’s an internal September 2007 State Department report on how bad the department’s own accounting practices are in Afghanistan, where $28.4 million in U.S. government property issued to contractors Dyncorp and Blackwater cannot be accounted for.

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