Word: gao
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...Seniors still find it difficult to choose among the program's many plans and the complicated coverage rules. The Government Accountability Office reported last week that its investigators posing as seniors found Medicare operators routinely providing inaccurate or incomplete benefit information. (The Administration points out that the GAO study was done between Jan. 17 and Feb. 7 and insists those problems have since been corrected...
...immediately found out by looking at the classified data that the infrared sensor failed to perform,” said Ghoshroy yesterday. “There was no data collected by the sensor, so these claims of success were false and our report should have stated that. But the GAO didn’t want to say anything like that. Instead, they decided that the GAO was not in a position to judge one way or the other, which was a complete cop-out because of the overwhelming evidence...
Ghoshroy claims that the GAO also falsely reported that officials met with the contractor in late 1997 and that the contractors told the government of all of the system’s failures. Ghoshroy claims that such a meeting never took place...
Ghoshroy said he submitted his own report of the events to Rep. Berman this past December, claiming that the Pentagon pressured the GAO to cover up the matter because it did not want to draw attention to a failure in the missile defense plan...
...statement issued to the New York Times, David M. Walker, head of the GAO and Comptroller General, wrote that the 2002 report “has been the subject of three internal investigations, including one by our Inspector General. All of these investigations found that [Ghoshroy’s] assertions lacked merit and the employee concurred with the related report before it was issued...