John Kerry warned about sole-source aid contract for Afghan justice training

Lack of oversight in a State Department bureau’s $47 million sole-source contract for justice training in Afghanistan raises serious concerns about whether U.S. taxpayer money is being spent properly, according to an alert letter sent to Secretary of State John Kerry by the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction Thursday.

The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs contracted in January with the International Development Law Organization for a new criminal justice training program that replaced a program that had been run by PAE Inc. since 2005.