Unauthorized Spending Quotes
He and the other commissioners of both political parties were agreed that the procurement by The State Department, USAID, and especially the Defense Department which spent the most was terrible. The even had military generals in charge of billions of dollars of procurement who did not even know the procurement laws and regulations they were supposed to obey much less the skill of good procurement.
He observed that Saudi Arabia was the only oil rich country that at least modernized itself in spite of the amount wasted on corruption. Bandar’s point was that the bribes enabled the country to transform itself and without the bribes, modernization would have been impossible as in other oil counties.
