For nearly five years, FBI leaders encouraged employees on temporary assignment in Iraq to bill an average of $45,000 in overtime and extra pay by routinely claiming to work 16 hours a day, seven days a week, even when some of that time was spent eating, exercising, watching movies or attending cocktail parties, the Justice Department inspector general reported yesterday.
FBI counterterrorism division managers condoned a time-billing practice under which 1,150 employees between 2003 and 2007 earned about $71,000 during a typical 90-day tour -- nearly triple the typical worker's salary, Inspector General Glenn Fine reported.
The practice violated federal law and regulations and accounted for at least $7.8 million to the $99 million taxpayer cost of the FBI efforts.
The FBI changed the overtime policy in 2008 while the investigation was underway. Using lower claims submitted by workers this year as a guide, the inspector general conservatively estimated that between 2003 and 2007, the typical employee earned about $5,594 per tour in unwarranted payments.
Another example of no regulation or oversite. This is the very crap that has to be stopped or our country is doomed, this kind of crap along with all other tax funded organizations have to have oversite and Regulation.
What? They should pay their own freight to go there. Its a veritable vacation spot now, where the average American can bask in all that Iraqi love. (Just ask Chad. He's got the T-shirt to prove it.)
Must be something in the sand over there. The land of the corrupt, the home of the ingrate.
Of course, you do know that you can't believe anything you read about the issue, right falcon? After all, you didn't actually speak with any FBI agents who are actually stationed there now, did ya? Did you at least verify the validity of the source by asking the troops on the ground? Or do you have a magic Truth T-shirt like Chaddie?
Specifically, he said the U.S. "remained silent in the face of an unrelenting campaign" by senior Iraqi officials to subvert Baghdad's Commission on Public Integrity, which had been led by al-Radhi. Then, the U.S. turned its back on Iraqis who fled to the United States after being threatened for pursuing anti-corruption cases, he said. "Since we have done so little (to undercut corruption), it's easy to see why the government of Iraq has not done more," said Mattil, who left the accountability office last October after having served for a year as its chief of staff. "We have demanded no better."
Of course, comparing the two is an unfair comparison. After all, the cost for repairs in Iraq have been peanuts. (The shoe-throwing incident and its aftermath show how much love Bush and America have garnered from the Iraqis and other Arabs in general): http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,...fnc/world/iraq
Of course the above are reports not corroborated by a Magic Trooper T-shirt and no troops on the ground were consulted to confirm or deny the story. And we all know how much Fox News strives daily to "bash" Bush.
Did you at least verify the validity of the source by asking the troops on the ground?
No, but i did visit theNational Archives once last year.That should count for something.
BTW: i know a lot of active duty troops who have served in Iraq, some of them 3 or 4 tours.About half thosei have spoken with on Iraq areobviousanomalies who believe that the place is a$hithole.Two mentioned how much theyenjoyed being shocked by underground electrical cables as theywalked over the wet ground at the Halliburton showers.
I could be absolutely wrong about this but I had previously heard (but not confirmed) that the FBI doesn't pay people overtime at an hourly rate. If an agent is working a lot of overtime, that agent gets an additional 25% of their base rate like some sort of overtime commission, etc. I have never confirmed this as I've never had the need to so it could be incorrect.
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I can't see the congress looking into this very deep, they have been doing much worse to us for as long as I can remember.
It may shock you to know that government agencies have been doing this crap since at least forever. It will shock me if anything changes much. They will stop a leak or two here and create a leak or two somewhere else. So goes government, at least since Caesar.
Bless the young and naive who still expect change. Although I doubt it, someday they might be right.
FBI Caught in Overtime Fraud
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