This is hilarious. I would have guessed that way more stuff was missing than this, and this is actually a pretty good report considering the circumstances. But the missing deep fat fryer is the best. Check it out. –Matt
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Joint Audit of Blackwater Contract and Task Orders for Worldwide Personal Protective Services in Iraq
Sample Selection (from page 51)
Of the 550 items selected for verification under the two task orders, we veri-fied the existence of 536 (97 percent) of all property in the sample. This number consisted of 100 percent of the vehicles, weapons, and property valued at $25,000 or more. We verified 136 (91 percent) of the items in the “Other” category. The 14 items on the inventory lists that we could not verify are presented in Table 3.
Most Property Could Be Verified (from page 58)
“Such oversight was lacking for the ‘other’ category of personal property, in which we could not account for the 14 items (9 percent): four handheld radios, four body armor vests, two pairs of binoculars, one satellite phone, one body armor plate, on Global Positioning System, and one deep fat fryer.” (p.16)
FAGOR Deep Fat Fryer