Posted on 11/14/2022 7:32:34 AM PST by george76
American taxpayers have spent more than $1 billion in Afghanistan since the botched withdrawal, yet the Biden administration is refusing to give an accounting of the funds to a government watchdog.
The State Department says it will not comply with an investigation request by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, to look at reconstruction expenditures that have totaled $146 billion since 2002, the agency’s report to Congress says.
The U.S. Agency for International Development and the Treasury Department “refused to cooperate with SIGAR in any capacity, while the State Department was selective in the information it provided pursuant to SIGAR’s audit and quarterly data requests,” the report reads.
“The State Department and USAID refused to answer nearly all of SIGAR’s quarterly data requests regarding agency-supported programs in Afghanistan this quarter,” the report says. “State and USAID claimed without basis that US programming in Afghanistan is unrelated to reconstruction activities.”
Specifically, SIGAR said it wanted information on the collapse of the Afghan government, risks to the population, U.S. compliance on prohibiting the transfer of funds to the Taliban, and the status of humanitarian programs.
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The U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021 after 20 years of war, leaving behind thousands of allies and American citizens. Thirteen American service members were killed as the Taliban took control of the government.
“We shouldn’t be spending that money, not one dime should be going there,” said retired Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc, who headed special operations in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2013. “This is a terrorist government with al Qaeda and ISIS. It’s absolutely wrong.”
During his years serving in Afghanistan, Bolduc, who lost his bid for a U.S. Senate seat in New Hampshire earlier this week, said he saw how U.S. aid was funneled to terrorist organizations once it reached the country.
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State Department spokesman Ned Price defended his agency’s actions to the Washington Free Beacon.
"Our position is that, except for certain specific funds, SIGAR’s statutory mandate is limited to funds available for, quote, ‘the reconstruction of Afghanistan,’" he said. "SIGAR’s current work does not appear to fall under its statutory mandate to oversee the funds for, quote, ‘the reconstruction of Afghanistan.’"
SIGAR, however, says its authority comes from mandates granted by Congress along with the Office of Management and Budget, which states, “It is the President’s expectation that executive departments and agencies will restore and respect the integrity and independence of their respective agency inspectors general (IGs) and work with the Congress to ensure that IG offices can exercise their vital oversight role.”
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Specifically, Section 7 of the Inspector General Act and other legal protections related to whistleblowers allow access to information. State Department employees have been told not to speak to SIGAR without clearance from attorneys, the report said.
So far, SIGAR has completed six audits and found $10,668,026 in questionable costs, the report said.
10% to the big guy.
Yeah, we know that any type objective audit would tie a lot of that money being laundered back to various sources in the US....just like the Ukraine funding of tens and tens of billions of dollars is coming back around with the FTX circle-jerk BS......
All foreign aide must end. Neocons will be deeply disturbed by that notion.
The US Taxpayers no longer matter.
The politicians can create and borrow money at will.
The only reason the IRS exists is to manage the citizens.
We have unlimited funds to spend according to Congress. Why waste time trying to control where they end up?
The amount of money we funneled through the state department during the “war on terror” is obscene.
The fact that we cannot account for hundreds of billions of dollars is criminal.
The number of leftist “NGO’s” around the world that are supported by Uncle Sugar exploded in the last 20 years. They are leading the globalist charge with our money and little to no accountability.
How many Frinds of Biden received their cut?
Where’s the audits for the $100Billion laundered through the Ukes?
How many Friends of Biden received their cut?......
not to mention Hunter and the rest of the Biden Crime Family.
Isn’t it amazing how Uncle Sugar braces at the idea of accounting and audits?
The GOP allowed this “NGO” game to explode under the Obama administration and it has grown ever since and much of it continued under the Trump administration.
Our government is FUNDING organizations with a globalist agenda using our tax money disguised as “do good - feel good” stuff and very few people are even aware of it. Congress could NEVER pass this spending directly so they give slush money to the state department and other government agencies and that money is directed by bureaucrats to the groups.
This is what Soros did in the Ukraine (in collaboration with the intel state) and it was one of the reasons that they attacked Trump so viciously when he threatened to pull back the curtain.
The game was far bigger than the Biden’s in the Ukraine and many powerful people stood to lose if the shell game (and the color revolution) was revealed.
since... SINCE??? WTAF?
It’s information such as this and the Ukraine/FTX funding scheme that makes me think that the left and WEF will soon just start a nuclear war. Our nation is so far in debt we will never make a dent in it. We print money and Congress spends it without ever even pretending to have a budget. We can’t service our debt without fancy creative bookwork.
The easiest thing to do for the elite is just to blow most of it up so they can rule atop the rubble without having to answer to those pesky and aggravating voters. They enjoyed the “lock-downs” where the peons were all locked in their homes and they had unfettered access to restaurants, fancy resorts, airlines, and the highways. They so dislike have to rub elbows with the peasants.
GIBS-ME-DAT Billion dollars and don’t ask for an accounting.
The normal procedure is if an agency refuses an IG audit, all funding is suspended. This refusal along with no consequences is a bigtime “Fraud Indicator”, which likely involves the top brass of the massively corrupt communist state department of the US
The State Department says it will not comply with an investigation request by the Special Inspector General
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State doesn’t have a choice.
Unless they’ve gone rogue.
Are they rogue ?
Proof is in the pudding.
As in The Brothers Karazamov, no moral compass -> more of the same.
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