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wasted. >> reporter: it could be more, we may never know. the 186 page report is certain of one thing, the bush administration threw taxpayer money at iraq missed a critical component, a plan. >> this failure of planning and having a plan to execute these contracts and to provide accountability for the people who were in charge of this, totally lacking. >> reporter: the result, among many other things, u.s. taxpayers shelled out $80 for a pvc elbow pipe you can buy at home depot for $1.40. the first american administrators hired a comptroller, robert stein, gave him more than $58 million in cash, which he promptly started stealing. >> the interesting thing about mr. stein, he was a convicted felon at the time he was hired. >> reporter: felony fraud charges at that. he is serving nine years in