{"id":1673,"date":"2006-11-03T16:36:06","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T20:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2006-11-03T16:36:06","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T20:36:06","slug":"congress-tells-auditor-in-iraq-to-close-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1673","title":{"rendered":"Congress Tells Auditor in Iraq to Close Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By JAMES GLANZ<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/03\/world\/middleeast\/03reconstruct.html\">3 November 2006<\/a> <em>New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Investigations led by a Republican lawyer named Stuart W. Bowen Jr. in Iraq have sent American occupation officials to jail on bribery and conspiracy charges, exposed disastrously poor construction work by well-connected companies like Halliburton and Parsons, and discovered that the military did not properly track hundreds of thousands of weapons it shipped to Iraqi security forces.<\/p>\n<p>And tucked away in a huge military authorization bill that President Bush signed two weeks ago is what some of Mr. Bowen?s supporters believe is his reward for repeatedly embarrassing the administration: a pink slip. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/03\/world\/middleeast\/03reconstruct.html\">More<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JAMES GLANZ 3 November 2006 New York Times Investigations led by a Republican lawyer named Stuart W. Bowen Jr. in Iraq have sent American occupation officials to jail on bribery and conspiracy charges, exposed disastrously poor construction work by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1673\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-qZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}