Iraq auditor offers advice on lessons learned
The federal government’s chief auditor in Iraq offered some advice to the Obama administration on post-conflict reconstruction in a Tuesday speech before a Yale Law School audience.
Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, discussed “Hard Lessons,” a book his office recently published detailing the misuse of reconstruction funds in Iraq. Bowen needled the Bush administration on several points, including what he called inadequate pre-war planning for the reconstruction of Iraq, the lack of a dedicated reconstruction bureau and the government’s heavy...
