The U.S. has dropped a ghastly $146 billion on Afghanistan reconstruction in the last two decades and billions more continue to be spent, but the Biden administration is blocking federal auditors from conducting their congressionally mandated job of investigating where the money is going….
UNREALISTIC TIMELINES, UNSUSTAINABLE GOALS MADE ‘VICTORIOUS U.S. WITHDRAWAL’ FROM AFGHANISTAN IMPOSSIBLE…
A “victorious U.S. withdrawal” from Afghanistan was impossible to achieve because the U.S. government created unrealistic timelines to rebuild the country, leading to short-term fixes such as injections of troops, money and resources, according to the watchdog agency created by Congress to provide oversight…
DOD Spent $6.5B on ‘Unused,’ ‘Abandoned’ and ‘Destroyed’ Infrastructure in Afghanistan…
New SIGAR report details just some of the $143 billion in infrastructure spending the U.S. has invested in Afghanistan since 2002…
“That’s Classified!” See How Afghanistan War Lies Are Made…
The Afghan government classifies all metrics that would show its failure to reach goals, or stops collecting the information entirely, a government watchdog told a Senate subcommittee led by Sen. Rand Paul today. “Do any specific trends lead you to believe that Afghan security forces will one day be able to hold off the Taliban… […]
Just a Little Sloppy Record-Keeping? The Pentagon’s $35 Trillion ‘Accounting Black Hole’…
Over the past two weeks of coronavirus headlines and heightened global anxiety, along with impeachment coverage and after over the Super Bowl weekend Americans huddled in living rooms in blissful oblivion, a story which in more normal times would be front and center has gone largely unnoticed. To be sure, the Pentagon couldn’t be happier […]
Thousands Have Been Killed in Afghanistan ‘Reconstruction,’ Stunning Watchdog Report Reveals…
A first-of-its-kind report on the “human costs” of U.S. efforts toward reconstruction in Afghanistan reveals that thousands have been killed or wounded in the process of trying to stabilize the region. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) report, released Tuesday, notes that they have long been calculating the financial costs of reconstruction, but […]
Afghanistan Reconstruction Programs Sustained More Than 5,100 Casualties in 16 Years…
REPORT: Operation Inherent Resolve in Brief…
Afghan Drug Trade Thrives Despite Costly U.S. Counternarcotics Campaign…
The drug trade in Afghanistan, which helps fund the insurgency and impedes reconstruction efforts, has grown stronger despite billions of dollars spent by the U.S. to fight it, a government watchdog said Thursday. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, said in a report that the U.S. needed a new strategy to fight […]
AUDIT: Afghanistan Watchdog Releases Audit of Defense Department Spending…
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, received the results of an audit he requested in 2016, along with then-Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), from the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The audit is the result of conscientious oversight efforts conducted by Grassley over several years […]