It Wasn't Just American Contractors Ripping Off Their Fellow American Taxpayers in Iraq......

The FBI was in on it, too!

• ... FBI leaders encouraged employees on temporary assignment in Iraq to bill an average of $45,000 in overtime and extra pay by routinely claiming to work 16 hours a day, seven days a week,.....FBI changed the overtime policy in 2008 while the investigation was underway.

It's fair to argue that there should have been more pay for serving in Iraq, but breaking many federal laws is not the way to do it. It also makes it harder for the government to crack down on cheating contractors when government agencies are on the take, too.
- posted by john @ 1:18 PM