Posted on 01/30/2015 2:35:38 PM PST by thetallguy24
Washington (AFP) - The US military will no longer divulge facts and figures about its costly effort to assist Afghan security forces, declaring the information top secret, officials said Thursday.
The move marks an about-face for the Pentagon, which for the past six years has reported a range of data about the $65 billion program to build up the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).
The information included how US taxpayers' money has been spent and the state of the troubled country's police and army.
John Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction (SIGAR), voiced disappointment with the change and said the classification of such a volume of information was "unprecedented."
"The decision leaves SIGAR unable to publicly report on most of the $65 billion US-taxpayer-funded efforts to build, train, equip and sustain the ANSF," Sopko's office said in its latest report.
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That camo looks like UPC for a drone, to me.
8-BIT.
I can see arming the Afghan national force, is as much a boondoggle as was outfitting and training the South Vietnamese army, and with this administration, possibly the same outcome!
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