A U.S. Government Accountability Office report released today faults oversight of NASA programs by the agency's Office of Inspector General, saying its audits have saved taxpayers little money. Savings from audits and investigations led by NASA Inspector General Robert "Moose" Cobb in fiscal year 2007 returned just 36 cents per dollar of the office's $34 million budget, according to the report.
That ranks poorly among 30 inspectors general appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, whose average return per dollar spent is $9.49.
"The OIG's relative lack of monetary accomplishments from audits is due, at
least in part, to the OIG's strategic and annual audit plans, which do not
provide assurance that NASA's economy and efficiency will be addressed or
that measurable monetary accomplishments will be achieved," the report states.
You can read the report here and tell us what you think.
In a response provided to a draft report, Cobb disagreed with the GAO's findings, saying they were based on "selective and incomplete data and flawed characterizations of the work, processes and accomplishments of the NASA OIG."
Here's a link to the NASA Office of Insepctor General.
IMAGE NOTE: The official portrait of NASA Inspector General Robert W. Cobb, provided by his office.
3 comments:
Did they get paid for killing Astronauts?
I want my money back.
Anyone could have done a better job than they did.
It would be the best thing for this county if NASA and all the contractors at the Space Center would go broke and have to leave.
This would be a nice place to live without those Yay-hoos stinking the place up. They are Republicans anyway and you see where that got us.
Get rid of Bush and get rid of the Space Center.
Of course it would take a hundred years to clean up the hazardous waste they polluted the ground with out there.
Real Patriotic American those Capitalist are.
Without the Republicans you wouldn't have anyone left to actually work and pay for all of your social programs.
NASA has been committing fraud against the American people for over 40 years. That's how long they've known that advanced extraterrestrial life is visiting the earth. Yet they continue to fund 'research' and invest in space travel to find 'life' when in fact they already know it exists. Most of the astronauts have already come out and admitted this. The management at NASA should be brought up on fraud charges for this for starters.
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