Fmr. DoJ Official: The Reason Gov’t Is Inefficient Is That ‘We’re Trying So Hard to Make Sure That There Isn’t Waste, Fraud and Abuse’

EXCERPT:

BHATTACHARYYA: “One of the things that sort of gets lost in all this conversation about efficiency is that part of reason government isn’t efficient, part of the reason that bureaucracies exist, it’s because we are trying so hard to make sure that there isn’t waste, fraud and abuse in our programs. The reviews and the processes —“

STEWART: “Right.”

BHATTACHARYYA: “— and the things that seem to take a long time that sort of hang us up, are there for a reason. They’re there because we want to make sure that we are being appropriate stewards of the public’s money.”