Comments on: What Vivek Kundra Has to Answer For

By: xxx

xxx — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:40:52 +0000

he is a shitty and shady fella. met him once dont want to again

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:57:03 +0000

With many of the technology contracts of large agencies and corporations being outsourced and/or administered by what is seemingly a preponderance of non-Americans, how safe are we from having the security of vital information compromised? The principals in this investigation, I believe, are either from South Asia or Turkey.

By: lin

lin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:16:12 +0000

It was not his sstrive for transparency that exposed this corruption, but an informant. Mr. Kundra during his entire tenure made the budget of the office impossible to to read, borrowed money from funds for other projects for projects not yet approved (the One Card --which was actually three cards is a good example).

He felt that the procurement process and all that tedious paperwork hindered his productivity. That same disdain for controls is what let to what happened. This is also a problem as there are still contractors who are managing contracts--not employees. Who was doing the basic oversight on the inventory (supposedly computerized) and the hours worked? How come there was no line manager signing off not only on the hours but the quality of work--oh yeah that is part of that stremlining he did.

The ITSA contract went through Council approved for $150 million, the Administration voluntarily agreed to limit it to 75 million, an agreement they can change at anytime. Yet Mr. Kundra himself was bypassing ITSA on favored contractors so he could pay them a higher rate.

By: Larry

Larry — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:51:09 +0000

This guy needs to resign immediately and stop bringing obama down with him.

He's not a genius -- He proposes shit like lets have dc.gov be searchable by google, WOW _ who cares

He needs to go back to learning and maybe come back in 10 years.

And NeoThomas, you are wrong. This was uncovered because of a good samaritan not because of Kundra. He is a bad manager.

By: NeoThomas

NeoThomas — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:21:21 +0000

It's fortunate that Vivek Kundra's agenda for transparency within the government is exactly what helped reveal the corruption therein.

Do we really want to push people who are helping uncover corruption out of the upper levels of government? What sort of message is this sending?

All of this didn't happen UNDER his nose, it was uncovered BECAUSE of his nose, because of his initiatives. That is my understanding.

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:56:18 +0000

It does indeed make one wonder.

So, what are the major DC government scandals since Williams was first elected (the modern era)?

DC DMV;
Tax scandal (office of tax and revenue)
OCTO;
Noncharge of appropriate tax rate of vacant properties (just uncovered this in a Google search), loss of approx $65 million;
Nongovernmental: Teachers' union

What am I missing?

By: Mahidhar

Mahidhar — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:16:30 +0000

His direct report employee - Viveks security expert - pulled secure email and reporting information from the electronic information stream between the inspector general's office and OCTO to trace who might be onto their scheme. He monitored his name and his co-conspiritor's names as well as all of the ficticious company names. This happened in Viveks office right under his nose. Unbelievable.

By: vlscpa

vlscpa — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:21:41 +0000

CYA OCTO BS, NO ID GD PC DC incompetents, BO SNAFU.