Report on Arlington National Cemetery that documents the waste of millions

Report blasts Arlington for 'improper or questionable' spending
Army contracting officials have produced a scathing report on Arlington National Cemetery that documents the waste of millions of taxpayer dollars, supposedly used to pay contractors and purchase supplies at Arlington. The Army probe found little proof of services rendered for some contracts and payments.

Investigators mostly discovered a convoluted, incomplete and sometimes conspicuously absent paper trail to account for the money -- both at the cemetery and in the files of Army contracting officials who oversee the cemetery.

The Army launched this stand-alone financial investigation in June as the yearlong Arlington scandal exposed by Salon rapidly became more public. Salon reported that many at Arlington had tried to blow the whistle on questionable spending to computerize burial records, under the supervision of deputy superintendent Thurman Higginbotham, with contracts going to some of the same people more than once, even after they failed to produce a product. After spending somewhere between $5 million and $20 million, Salon reported, the cemetery's years-long effort to computerize its records wasn't completed.
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