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Daylight Robbery
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Daylight Robbery

2008 · 58 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Jane Corbin investigates where $23 billion in Iraq war spending actually went. Panorama's reporter traces the money through American contractors hired for catering, tanker driving, security, and interrogation work, many of them companies with ties to the White House and awarded contracts without competitive bidding. More than 70 whistleblower cases sit behind the story, though a US Department of Justice gagging order keeps most of the detail out of public view; Corbin gets several of those involved to talk anyway, on camera, about inflated invoices, double-counted costs, and funds meant to rebuild the Iraqi military that allegedly ended up with Iraqi officials instead. One detail stands out: the firm hired to oversee how the money was spent had no accounting qualifications. A witness sums up the contractors bluntly as people who "made money out of chaos." The film stays narrow and procedural, following the paper trail of a war's back office rather than its battles, and lets the whistleblowers' testimony carry the weight of the accusation.