By attempting to exempt overseas contracts from fraud oversight, the Bush administration is sending an unambiguous message: If you are a U.S. government contractor in Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere overseas, you have a green light to defraud our government and waste taxpayers’ dollars. What they are saying is that if you’re going to perform waste, fraud and abuse, don’t do it at home, do it abroad.

At a time when the United States is engaged extensive redevelopment programs in both Iraq and Afghanistan and employing the services of an unprecedented number of private contractors, granting this safe harbor for overseas contractors flies in the face of reason.

So, in other words, let them steal from the tax payers over there legally so the won't have to steal from them here illegally.