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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As only one small example, it was recently discovered that an influential contracting officer at USAID named Roderick Watson was able to carry out a massive, long-term bribery scheme dating all the way back to 2013.  Watson, 57, pleaded guilty to bribery of a public official.

There was massive fraud occurring throughout USAID.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-trump-admin-takes-action-after-massive-fraud-uncovered-agency-dems-tried-protect-from-doge[/quote]

Not to downplay this because Watson and the others need to go to jail and made that agency look shitt but let's take a look at the absolutely hyperbolic language in context.  And the companies and recipients of the money need to make significant restitution to the taxpayers and also go to jail.

BUT...

We're talking about 14 contracts out of around 2700 contracts during that span of time.

We're talking about 500 million out of $150 billion in contracts during that time.

It was ONE very corrupt guy and possibly one or two more within the agency who were also either corrupt or incompetent.

Yet here's FOX News pushing a narrative trying to suggest the entire agency is nothing but corruption, fraud, waste and abuse.

I bet you that if you dug into a Fortune 500 doing that kind of volume of business over 10 years you will ALSO easily find at least 14 questionable deals and hundreds of millions in waste, fraud and abuse, if not more.  I bet if you dug into FOX News's finances you'd find plenty of fraud, waste and abuse.

Again, corruption, fraud, waste and abuse is wrong and this Watson character and all of the others need to be held accountable and pay restitution but the hyperbole coming from FOX News and the rest is totally over the top and is spreading a false narrative.[/quote]

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