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Date: May 3, 2007 9:11:20 PM PDT
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Subject: Things Fall Apart
US inspector general for Iraq
under investigation [himself]
Reuters, 02 May 2007
By Andrea Shalal-Esa
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N02425664.htm
WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - Stuart Bowen, the U.S. special
inspector general for Iraq reconstruction whose office has
uncovered abuse of both Iraqi and U.S. funds, is under
investigation himself, a White House spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
"Complaints against Mr. Bowen are being looked at by the integrity
committee of the PCIE (President's Council on Integrity and
Efficiency), said spokeswoman Emily Lawrimore.
She gave no details about the investigation or the nature of the
complaints against Bowen, who heads the Special Inspector General
for Iraq Reconstruction, or SIGIR.
Bowen's office declined comment.
The council, created in 1992, is comprised of presidentially
appointed inspectors general and headed by Clay Johnson, the deputy
director for management of the White House Office of Management and
Budget.
Johnson told Reuters he had no details on the nature of the
allegations against Bowen, saying only they were filed by former
and current employees.
"Right now there have been no findings," he said, adding the
inspector general of the Social Security Administration had been
appointed by the integrity committee to conduct the investigation.
"It has been going on for a long time," Johnson said.
He said he chaired the council, but emphasized it was independent
of the White House, and his role was very limited. He said the
integrity committee was created in 1996 to investigate any
allegations involving inspectors general.
Several former SIGIR employees filed complaints about Bowen in
2006, focusing on charges that he failed to come to work for long
periods at a time, and used SIGIR staff to work on a book about the
broad lessons of Iraq reconstruction, said one former SIGIR
employee, who asked not to be identified.
"It is SIGIR's standing policy neither to confirm nor deny the
existence of any investigation, whether by SIGIR investigators or
any other (U.S. government) agency," said spokeswoman Denise Burgess.
Bowen was appointed as inspector general of the Iraqi Coalition
Provisional Authority in January 2004, remaining in that role after
the creation of SIGIR.
His office produces quarterly reports to Congress about Iraq
reconstruction efforts. His latest report said seven of eight
rebuilding projects that costing about $150 million had previously
been declared successes, were now in disrepair or had been abandoned.
Bowen, a lawyer who spent four years in the U.S. Air Force,
previously served as deputy assistant to President George W. Bush
as well as associate counsel.
Before his White House tenure, Bowen was a legal adviser to the
Bush-Cheney transition team; and from 1994 to 2000, he held a
variety of positions on Bush's staff in Texas, when Bush was governor.
Johnson said he had no information about a separate investigation
by the council of Johnnie Frazier, the Commerce Department
inspector general, which was first reported in the Washington Post
on Wednesday.
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