Learning From Iraq A Final Report From the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction
A Final Report From the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction culminates SIGIR's nine-year mission overseeing Iraq's reconstruction. It serves as a follow-up to our previous comprehensive review of the rebuilding effort, Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience.
This study provides much more than a recapitulation of what the reconstruction program accomplished and what my office found in the interstices. While examining both of these issues and many more, Learning From Iraq importantly captures the effects of the rebuilding program as derived from 44 interviews with the recipients (the Iraqi leadership), the executors (U.S. senior leaders), and the providers (congressional members). These interviews piece together an instructive picture of what was the largest stabilization and reconstruction operation ever undertaken by the United States (until recently overtaken by Afghanistan).
The body of this report reveals countless details about the use of more than $60 billion in taxpayer dollars to support programs and projects in Iraq. It articulates numerous lessons derived from SIGIR's 220 audits and 170 inspections, and it lists the varying consequences meted out from the 82 convictions achieved through our investigations. It urges and substantiates necessary reforms that could improve stabilization and reconstruction operations, and it highlights the financial benefits accomplished by SIGIR's work: more than $1.61 billion from audits and over $191 million from investigations.
Please address inquiries regarding this report to SIGIR Public Affairs by e-mail or to 703-428-1100.
This report is also broken out by Figures, Pictures, and Tables.
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| Learning from Iraq | 6,531 KB |
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| Front Matter | 406 KB |
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| Preface | 369 KB |
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| Section 1: Oversight in a War Zone | 519 KB |
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| Section 2: What Happened and to What Effect | 1,005 KB |
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| Section 3: Nation (Re)Building by Adhocracy | 927 KB |
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| Section 4: How Much Money was Spent | 772 KB |
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| Section 5: Where the Money Went | 2,927 KB |
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| Section 6: Pathways Toward Reform | 533 KB |
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| Section 7: Final Lessons | 454 KB |
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| Afterword | 270 KB |
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| Appendices From the Report | 360 KB |
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| Acronyms | 243 KB |
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| Endnotes | 459 KB |
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| Front Cover (High Resolution JPEG) | 57 KB |
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| Back Cover (High Resolution JPEG) | 57 KB |
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