Tag: SIGAR

An inspector general audit found $1.2 million of $4.6 million spent by a wildlife group was unsupported. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Energy and Environment

Watchdog questions costs by conservation contractor in Afghanistan

Kyle Feldscher · December 11, 2015 9:07 pm

Former employees that members of the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations face allegations charging that they stayed in plush villas at a cost of nearly $150 million. (Photo courtesy of SIGAR)

National Security

DoD accused of wasting millions on Afghan villas

Jacqueline Klimas · December 3, 2015 5:01 am

"I remain concerned that IRD is acting improperly to limit the rights of potential whistleblowers to report instances of waste, fraud and abuse," John Sopko wrote in late July of last year. (AP Photo)Â

Pentagon blows $43 million on natural gas facility in Afghanistan

Kelly Cohen · November 2, 2015 6:23 pm

In this Friday, May 22, 2015 photo, an Afghan police stops a motorbike at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Kunduz, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Audit: Government has no rule-of-law strategy for Afghanistan

Nicole Duran · July 9, 2015 3:39 pm

A U.S. soldier from the 101st Airborne Division destroys opium poppies growing in a field in Khost province, Afghanistan, in 2008. Rafiq Maqbool/AP

Washington Secrets

U.S. dumps $8.4b in Afghanistan to fight drugs, but opium production jumped

Paul Bedard · April 30, 2015 8:26 pm

"I remain concerned that IRD is acting improperly to limit the rights of potential whistleblowers to report instances of waste, fraud and abuse," John Sopko wrote in late July of last year. (AP Photo)Â

State Department slashes oversight in Afghanistan, putting billions at risk

Sarah Bedford · April 29, 2015 1:59 pm

The Shorandam Industrial Park, which was funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, is home to just four Afghan companies, according to a report made public Tuesday by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.Â (Photo: www.army.mil)

Taxpayer-funded facilities in Afghanistan sit empty, without power

Sarah Bedford · April 22, 2015 1:49 pm

Afghan women chant slogans during a protest demanding justice for a woman who was beaten to death by a mob after being falsely accused of burning a Quran last week, in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Feds botched Afghan womens’ programs, launch new one for $416 million

Sarah Bedford · April 2, 2015 4:59 pm

Soldiers of the 2nd Platoon Alfa Company of Combined Team Bastogne, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and personel of Afghan National Army patrol the Watahpur river area during a visit by the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) to the Shamirkot Bridge near the forward base Honaker Miracle in Kunar province on April 14, 2013. The PRT visited the Shamirkot Bridge to make an assessment of its reconstruction. (Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images)

Pentagon classified, then declassified controversial Afghan spending data

Sarah Bedford · March 3, 2015 6:08 pm

Items like plastics, tires and batteries were burned in open pits where the fumes could drift into areas where U.S. military personnel lived.Â (iStock)

Pentagon wasted millions of tax dollars on unused Afghan trash incinerators

Sarah Bedford · February 13, 2015 2:00 pm

Lawmakers pressed Hagel on why the data, which had long been a matter of public record, was suddenly made secret. (AP File Photo)

House pushes Pentagon for Afghanistan spending numbers

Sarah Bedford · February 11, 2015 9:08 pm

The U.S. recently gave Afghanistan $100 million, three-quarters of which was unconditional, which was use to pay Afghan government civil servants.Â

Afghan government headed for ruin without U.S. money

Ethan Barton · January 29, 2015 9:46 pm