If the funding agreement between the government and the recipient contains clauses that give the government the contractual right to require the recipient to provide information and audit what has gone on within the project that has been funded... it is that vehicle I'm referring to. That exists today, by and large, in most funding agreements. If under those funding agreements the government asks the Auditor General to go in and perform the audit that was contemplated under those agreements and the Auditor General agrees to do that, she can do so, again by way of contractual right.
On May 4th, 2006. See this statement in context.