So Ms. Doan thought she was following proper procedures when she awarded a no-bid contract to a personal friend of hers??!! This kind of corruption is outrageous, and watchdog groups who cover this kind of stuff need to rail on the govt until resolution is brought to this matter, making no difference to who the corrupt official is. Her agency spends over $56 billion a year on paper clips, office space, car fleets and other necessities for federal agencies?? How on God's green earth can you justify this waste??!!

Just another example of the Bush corrupt, crony filled, incompetent administration.

Lets wait and see what the FACTS reveal... the Washington Witch Hunts are getting rediculous. IF she is guilty, hang her high... if not... because of the liberal media.. she will still feel hung... Its a lose lose for the GOP...

Another washington GOP witch hunt. Pretty soon the Media will be after every GOP intern who ever brought a pencil home from the Capital... Puleeeeze... Lets let the facts speak for themselves.. and hang the guilty.... Trial by media is getting old....

The United States Goverment is the most inefficient purchasing agency in the world. I sold them $400,000. worth of computer equipment a few years ago. They sent me payment 3 times after they paid for the original order. I got so fed up with the whole situation I had to threaten to keep the overpayment before they stopped sending it. Our Goverment does not encourage competition or efficency. What can you do about it? This article does not surprise me a bit.

I SEE THAT ABC WILL REMIAN UNRELENTLESS IN TRYING TO UNDERMINE THE BUSH PRESIDENCY UNITIL THE VERY SECOND HIS TERM EXPIRES. YOUR LACK OF ETHICS AND DOUBLE STANDARDS NEVER CEASE TO AMAZE ME.

As I look at this administration in retrospect I have a huge knot in my stomach. This administration seem to be awash in corruption stemming from the office of the President down. Its an anything goes regieme. They bend policy to fit their wants and needs,and they circumvent checks and balances.

The only way this is going to stop is to remove them from office immediately.

More Republican corruption? Boy, what a shocker! Can't wait till the right wingnuts show up trying to blame the Dems for this one.

What else is new...

At the end of the article, you learn that the woman is from New Orleans. I think that explains the problem right there.

Welfare for the 'rich' who then shovel back a fraction of the loot in the form of political contributions. how cozy. but does this 'undermine' democracy? Maybe this is how 'patriots' serve this country...

This is a prime example of why politicians, like diapers, need to be changed periodically. If the Republicans still controlled Congress, this never would have seen the light of day. And please don't misconstrue this a "good Dems, bad GOP", either. It's just that the party that took back power is now looking for payback. When the Dems retake the presidency, some political hack will get a plum job, screw up the same way through malice or stupidity, and they'll be caught only when the GOP takes power again.

Bush's infamy will rest as an immoral president responsible for worldwide death, destruction and devastation. On the one hand, Mr. Bush refuses to acknowledge the wealth of knowledge to be gained from stem-cell research, yet he is apparently comfortable in permitting the people of Dafur to be subjected to mass torture and murder.

There should be a collective outcry for impeachment of this president based on his alleged "trade policies" that have virtually destroyed the middle class. Contrary to the rhetoric of Mr. Bush's camp, he has placed this country in harms way by refusing to secure the borders and demand "fair" trade policies.

One can only wonder what "war on terror" Mr. Bush is fighting when his policies permit anyone free access to this country via the Mexican border, yet persecutes two Border Patrol agents who are now imprisoned based solely on the word of a convicted drug smuggler who was granted immunity.

Since when is this news, the whole goverment is corrupt

so what? thereport clearly shows that the government is as bloated as teddy kennedys' gut?! the budget is one-third WASTE!!! any idiot knows that!

Government by the corporations, for the corporations...Funny, how when GOP officials are called on suspicious behavior, it's the liberal media. When DEM officials are called on suspicious behavior, it's the right-wing nuts. Does anyone else here see a pattern. Seems politians and their buddies don't think they have to take personal responsibility for anything, but they sure complain when the opposition doesn't. I think Bill is correct, we need periodic housecleaning.
And what about those border patrol officers, why did the federal government go after them without hearing the entire story. Does somebody in government benefit from siding with the drug runners? What about the federal officials that didn't tell the truth? What's going to happen to them? D.C. needs a major housecleaning.

yet another Republican corruption scandal.

I don't know how much more of this stuff I can take.

How can anyone in this country seem surprised by the corruption of this administration?
If there are individuals who aren't corrupt in this administration...speak up now this country cannot wait two more years to begin to repair the damage caused by the Bush administration.

I saw no mention of Halliburton. Is it one of the other two firms? It certainly got a huge no-bid contract! Does Dick Cheney personally sign that check?

I agree Bush and his cronies should be removed immediately!! If we wait till the '08 elections the world will think all Americans agree with their lying corrupt ways. Congree needs to get them all out now!! From Bush down!!!

The job of the legislature is oversight...providing checks and balances for the other two co-equal branches of government. The Republicans have now had six years of balance-free, unchecked power. Having Democrats in congress actually doing their job is now beginning to uncover what kind of damage a single party with uncontested power can do. Blaming the democrats, the mythical liberal media, or in the case of A.J's most outrageous 'reach', illegal immigration is illogical, unreasonable, and disingenuous. The simple fact is, when one party has full control...whichever party that is...this is the kind of thing that will happen. Voters aren't stupid, and are not fooled. They will eventually do what the politicians won't...that is, correct the over-balance.

Hey, Whatever happened to the story about Senate Majority Leader and his very lucrative land deal? Oh yeah, thats right. this had to go away. Harry Reid has a (D) at the end of his name. I really do enjoy the internet. I can find out about corruption outside of the Newspapers and Nighttime TV broadcasts.

For many years now contracts at the state and federal level have been awarded to minority and women owned businesses instead of low bid. And to compete many businesses have cheated by putting a minority or woman at the helm (in name only)to get this perk. This is nothing new and was not started by Republicans--rather it is a liberal view that we should give these companies "affirmative action" at the corporate level. How insulting to think that women and minorities need extra help to compete. If the women is found guilty, she should be punished. But I am also tired and angry of our biased media. State the facts you find, and let the correct authorities do the job!

Impeach the adminstration not because of this specifically, (another nail in the coffin perhaps) but the web of lies fed to all of us; declaring a war on faked evidence. If a court official faked evidence to convict/acquit a suspect; they would go to jail. In light of the current testimony reported from the Libby scandal; Cheney seems to be running his own adminstration as well. The GOP and Dems need to stop them before they launch another war we can't win.

To A.J. and all those who ignore some facts and inflate hearsay. It flies in the face of reason to accuse Bush of "immorality" to the degree espoused. Such a tendency would smack of insanity because it is clear that Bush has not benefited at all from his supposed immoral behavior. The more likely motivation is a belief that the US had no choice but to act in Iraq. Also, Bush INCREASED spending on both stem cell research and AIDS. Stem cell research is NOT illegal. Fetal stem cell research has scientifically dubious future, but ADULT stem cell research has already reaped benefits. And as a member of the middle class, I can safely state that I and my friends are doing fine. I don't see ANY distruction even though jobs in my field are often in India now. The world changes. Change with it or you won't be happy. Oh, and by the way, what other countries could help in Darfur? France? Germany? Russia? How about all of Africa? Come on. Look at the whole picture.

Let's all start over after we throw everyone out!

In a word, it's corruption. Anyone minimizing this is just covering for political reasons.

Lie and Deny.. that is the motto
of the Bush administration .. When is the American people going
to say enough is enough .. and start sending these corrupt individual to secret foreign sites.

I remember a No-bid contract for the Panama Canal to the Chinese during the Clinton administration. All believed there was NO WAY America could lose the operations of the Panama Canal. But then, China was able to purchase the rights in a no-bid contract.

This 'scandal', as it was never called, went all the way to congress, where they were totally unable to understand how this could have happened.

Never mind, that this contract COULD NOT be reversed.

Want to learn whats going on in Panama today? Just google "china panama canal".

Not a peep of this was ever spoken by the MSM.

(A.J dont forget the canadian border as well, people use to be able to cross with a drivers liscense and obtain legal residency in California. Plus Canada has plenty of muslims, Mexico not so much, I've never seen a mosque there, canada plenty.)

Back to the issue of corruption, yup from bottom to the top. Nothing new, but come to mind we should have a law that politicians should have at least 1 of their offspring in the military or server themselves...just an idea.

Yep, when I went to purchasing classes for the US Government they told us all there was a jail cell waiting for each of us, because the temptation of enriching your life or your friends' lives are too real. In government ethics training, which we were required to attend annually, we were told we couldn't even get a free lunch from a vendor we may have worked with for years, because that may imply to someone else an unfair practice. But those at the top of the food chain think that they are immune from all the rules. Hang 'em all I say... Republicans, Democrates, Independents... if the rules are broken send 'em to jail. Oh yeah and fine them too!

I suppose the Clinton administration was a pure as the driven snow. Travelgate was only a figment of one's imagination. Monica Lewinski? Why, everybody's doing it, right? Everybody lies to a grand jury.

Can't wait for the Dems. to get into office so we can compare notes.

Robert said ... 'Can't wait for the Dems. to get into office so we can compare notes.' It won't happen because the main stream liberal media will not let it be known. What scares me the most is how the terrorist know the Dems are weak on ‘war on terror’ and know we will cut and run from Iraq. They are just waiting for the Dems to take control. Me, I’ll learn how to shot a rifle to defend myself because I sure don’t see the Dems protecting me!

The panama canal and china? I always wondered what republican paranoid schizophrenics did with their time. The Panama canal belongs to Panama not the U.S. Panama is a sovereign nation, not that you republicans call for any nation's sovereignty to be respected except for America's. Who cares who is operating it as long as ships pass through. That is all that matters and there hasn't been any problems there. The US will never go to war with China until a future President Bush contrives a reason to do so.

Ms. Doan was reported late last year trying to justify her decision to cut funding of GSA's own watchdog.

What was despicable, more than the wrongful act of this political appointee trying to attack good audit practice, was the fact that in her contempt for the truth and the intelligence of her peers Ms Doan managed to put forward her version of the facts and events with total impunity.

Just like this time.