Senators Oppose Hiding Wartime-Contracting Records for 20 Years

11/12/2011

Senators Oppose Hiding Wartime-Contracting Records for 20 Years

Many thanks to Sens. Jim Webb (D-VA) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) for pressing the Archivist of the United States to release contracting records that the government decided to seal for the next twenty years. Considering that possibly tens of billions in contracts allegedly have been squandered or lost to fraud and mismanagament in Iraq and Afghanistan, it borders on criminal that the Archive would dare keep this critical information from the citizenry. Of course, it remains to be seen whether the government will actually rescind the decision to seal that data.

Additional thanks goes to the Project of Government Oversight, or POGO, for bringing this matter to the public's attention. POGO has made the Webb-McCaskill letter available through the group's blog.

Nov 12, 2011 10:11:22 AM | Afghanistan, Iraq, U.S. Dept. of Defense, U.S. Senate, U.S. State Dept.

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