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...Government Accountability Office (GAO), the auditing arm of Congress, agrees. "A second supplier could be greater assurance of a steady supply of goods, even if one site were disrupted by a strike, natural disaster, bankruptcy or terrorist attack," GAO investigators wrote...
...First, there's the provision that only companies that are [at least] 90% American-owned can bid," he says. "We don't allow that for anything else, not even defense." The Secret Service insists that money must be produced and printed within the U.S. to maintain security, but the GAO found no reason to bar foreign companies from making currency if they do so on U.S. soil. "Then, there's the four-year contract," Kolbe continues. "What company, with the capitalization costs it takes to get into this business, can take on such a financial burden...
...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...
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...