CBS Evening News Online Edition - 2006-02-10
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[0:00] hello I'm Scott P and welcome to the CBS
[0:03] Evening News online edition just ahead
[0:06] 8.8 billion dollars in tax money
[0:09] earmarked for Iraq's reconstruction is
[0:12] missing how did that happen Steve Croft
[0:14] has a preview of a CBS News exclusive
[0:17] investigation also back in the hot seat
[0:20] former FEMA Chief Michael Brown points a
[0:22] finger at his boss in the handling of
[0:25] the Katrina disaster and do-it-yourself
[0:28] funerals that's the story you chose and
[0:30] we'll have it for you on assignment
[0:32] America it's all starting now on the CBS
[0:35] Evening News online
[0:38] edition We Begin this evening with a CBS
[0:41] News exclusive the US government is
[0:44] spending billions of your tax dollars
[0:46] fighting the war in Iraq and billions
[0:48] more to rebuild the country now it turns
[0:50] out the government doesn't know where a
[0:52] pretty big chunk of that money went but
[0:55] 60 Minutes does and if you're a taxpayer
[0:57] you probably won't like it 60 minutes
[1:00] correspondent Steve cof joins us now
[1:01] with the story Steve thanks Scott since
[1:04] the start of the Iraq War billions of
[1:06] dollars given to private contractors
[1:08] have gone unaccounted for and there are
[1:10] widespread allegations now of Fraud and
[1:13] War profiteering so far only one case
[1:16] against a company called Custer battles
[1:18] which is the subject of a civil lawsuit
[1:20] has been unsealed the case goes on trial
[1:23] on Monday and it provides a window into
[1:25] the chaos of those early days in
[1:28] Iraq fresh new crisp unspent just
[1:31] printed $100 bills it was the Wild West
[1:35] Frank Willis was the number two man at
[1:37] the Coalition provisional authori