Want to Know the Cost of Iraq War? Wait until 2031

October 3, 2011

Tags: Commission on Wartime Contracting, Congress, Waste
Posted in: Afghanistan, Embassy/State, Iraq, Military

The internal records of a congressionally mandated panel that reported staggering estimates of wasteful U.S. wartime spending will remain sealed to the public until 2031, officials confirmed, as the panel closes its doors on Friday.

The Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan was established by Congress in 2008 and spent three years probing more than $206 billion the U.S. government spent on contracts and grants during a decade of conflict.

In a final, 240-page report issued in late August, the panel estimated that the U.S. had wasted or misspent between $31 billion and $60 billion contracting for services. The commission’s management estimates that the three years of research and investigations themselves cost approximately $25 million.

Want to know more? Wait until 2031 (no hurry, we’ll still be at war in Afghanistan), or read the whole article.

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