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Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction :SIGIR Homepage
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Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction : January 2009 Report
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Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction : Leadership
— sigir.mil — Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., has served as the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction since October 2004.... He previously served as the Inspector General for the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA-IG), a position to which he was appointed in ... (more) Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction ...

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ProPublica: Commission on Wartime Contractors Discovers....Afghanistan
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica The congressionally mandated Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan met for the first time in Washington D.C. today, the start of a two-year long probe into corruption, abuse and fraud in the ongoing conflicts that may one day top a trillion dollars in cost. Front and center was a 456-page report on greed and waste in Iraq written by the Special Inspector General of Iraq, Stuart Bowen. The draft of Bowen's report, entitled "Hard Lessons," was first revealed in December in a joint ...

Hard Lessons
Ross Douthat — I'm probably not going to make it all the way through the Inspector General's illuminating and depressing report on everything that went wrong in Iraq; you probably aren't either. Fortunately, David Frum is ...

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