The Oversight Committee holds a hearing, “Allegations of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse at the New U.S. Embassy in Iraq.” The hearing examines the performance of the State Department and its contractors in the construction of the new $600 million U.S. embassy in Baghdad. The Committee reviews questions regarding the embassy compound construction as well as allegations of labor abuse through improper contracting practices. Rory Mayberry, a former subcontractor employee for First Kuwaiti Trading Contracting Company, gives opening testimony
Why do we need a $600 Million embassy in Baghdad?
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I was in the room for all four hours of this witchhunt. The shoddy constuction came from a Saudi Company and was replaced and repaired for $6,000 before the Hearing was even announced. And the Saudis and First Kuwaiti haven’t been paid a dime yet.
The building is even built to allow the size to reduce by selling/donating buildings on the outer perimeter if they aren’t needed. It’s built to shrink.
And if anyone who watched these two weasles testify can still believe them… they you weren’t really watching. “I-am-prohibited-by-law-from-answering-this-question.” Indeed!
Slaves didn’t build the Pyramids and they sure as Hell wouldn’t stay around to build something like this.