“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.” ~ Article I, Section 9, Clause 7, U.S. Constitution
Iraq Audit Can’t Find Billions
Boston Globe, October 2004
Billions over Baghdad
by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele – Vanity Fair
September 2007
US Probes $100 Million Missing in Iraq
MSNBC, May 2005
So, Mr. Bremer, Where Did All the Money Go?
The Guardian, July 2005
Billions Wasted in Iraq
CBS News, February 2006
Iraq’s Missing Billions (video)
Journeyman Pictures, March 2006
Halliburton Watch: US Mismanaged $8.8 Billion in Iraqi Funds, August 2004
Iraq Revenue Watch: Reports & Briefings
Open Society Institute, December 2004
The Not So Strange Case of Phillip Merrill
Joe Quinn, Signs of the Times, June 2006
Balancing Our Bank Book: The Missing $9 Billion and More (Windows Media Audio; PDF Transcript )
Rep. Cynthia McKinney, June 2006
Those Who Blow Whistle on Contractor Fraud in Iraq Face Penalties
Deborah Hastings, Associated Press, August 2007
A ‘Fraud’ Bigger Than Madoff
Patrick Cockburn, The Independent, February 2009