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HUGE: Judicial Watch Reveals Biden Administration Is Still Sending Billions to Afghanistan – And They Refuse Access to Auditors to Investigate
GATEWAY PUNDIT ^ | 7/24/2022 | judicialwatch

Posted on 07/24/2022 12:37:48 PM PDT by bitt

Judicial Watch revealed recently that the Biden Administration was still sending billions of US taxpayer dollars to Afghanistan. The Biden regime is also preventing an audit of their actions.

It’s been almost a year now since Joe Biden and the US Military surrendered to the Taliban terrorists. Joe Biden, General Milley and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are still in power.

As part of the surrender, Joe Biden armed the Taliban with nearly $80 billion in US weapons and left thousands of Americans stranded in the country to fend for themselves.

The White House and Pentagon have never admitted to how many billion dollars worth of weapons they left behind for the Islamist group.

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


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KEYWORDS: afghanistan; biden; bloggers; terroristfunding

1 posted on 07/24/2022 12:37:48 PM PDT by bitt
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A demoncratic administration doing its part to insure that the Arabs will have the tools to wipe Israel off of the face of the earth . . . this isn’t going to end well for them or America. It is all described in the back of the Book. Israel wins - the rest of the world loses.

It’s all being put in place folks. If you are putting off getting saved - you are a fool.


2 posted on 07/24/2022 12:40:25 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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It’s probably like the Versailles Treaty — we lost the war and now we owe a ruinous debt to the victor. Oh well. 10% to the Big Guy.


3 posted on 07/24/2022 12:40:50 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. It's "whatever".)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

SNIP....

Judicial Watch revealed recently that the Biden Administration was still sending billions of US taxpayer dollars to Afghanistan. The Biden regime is also preventing an audit of their actions.

Judicial Watch first uncovered this in June of this year.

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. For months the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has been trying to investigate the abrupt collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan, if the State Department is complying with laws and regulations prohibiting the transfer of funds to the Taliban and ongoing humanitarian programs supporting the Afghan people. However, the State Department and its offshoot, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), refuse to cooperate as required by law.

This month the head of SIGAR, John F. Sopko, expressed outrage at the State Department’s efforts to obstruct his office’s investigation. In letters to congressional committees and Secretary of State Antony Blinken and USAID Administrator Samantha Power, Sopko reveals that the State Department has blown off more than 20 requests for information from his office in the last eight months. The watchdog writes that the sudden refusal to cooperate is particularly surprising after more than a decade of cooperation. “Billions of dollars have been spent in Afghanistan and billions more continue to be spent,” Sopko writes. “Congress and American taxpayers deserve to know why the Afghan government collapsed after all that assistance, where the money went, and how taxpayer money is now being spent in Afghanistan.”

The State Department recently informed SIGAR, which was created by Congress to provide independent and objective oversight of Afghanistan reconstruction projects and activities, that it would not cooperate with future financial audits. Instead, Sopko writes, the State Department told him from now on it would choose its own auditors. The watchdog reminds the State Department that it is prohibited by law from preventing his office from carrying out its duties and that its authorizing statutes specifically states no officer from the Department of Defense, the Department of State, or the United States Agency for International Development shall prevent or prohibit the Inspector General from initiating, carrying out, or completing any audit or investigation related to amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for the reconstruction of Afghanistan. “It should go without saying, but neither SIGAR’s authorizing statute nor the Inspector General Act of 1978 contain a “choose your own auditor” provision,” Sopko writes to Blinken.

Of greatest concern to the Afghanistan watchdog is the State Department’s refusal to provide basic information for an audit involving efforts to ensure that ongoing programs supporting the people of Afghanistan do not result in the illegal transfer of U.S. taxpayer funds to the Taliban or the Haqqani Network. “The fact that State and USAID would obstruct such oversight work, particularly after the Taliban’s seizure of governmental power in Afghanistan, is unprecedented,” Sopko writes. “Given the express prohibition against State and USAID officials preventing SIGAR from conducting its oversight work, it is also illegal.” The SIGAR concludes by writing that, as the U.S. government continues adding to the billions of dollars that it has already spent in Afghanistan since 2002, U.S. taxpayers deserve objective information concerning where their money is going and to whom it is being given.
Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan was the worst surrender in US history.


4 posted on 07/24/2022 12:41:21 PM PDT by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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Danegeld.


5 posted on 07/24/2022 12:44:38 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: bitt

Redistribution of Wealth - collapse of the USA - Obama, Jarret and Rice behind all of these crazy things going on.


6 posted on 07/24/2022 12:48:00 PM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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The left worships evil and wants to transfer our wealth to them.


7 posted on 07/24/2022 12:53:22 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

All to help China.

China Joe is helping out.


8 posted on 07/24/2022 1:00:21 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Not one word about this by the republicans. The rats investigated president Trump for nothing but Joe Pedo can give away billions to our enemy without even a question by republicans. We are lost as a country. Half the people walk around with their heads up their asses.
9 posted on 07/24/2022 1:27:10 PM PDT by Rdct29 (Democrats are the new Nazi's. They think they deserve total control over the people)
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To: bitt

Gotta keep that money laundering op going, dontcha know.


10 posted on 07/24/2022 1:32:08 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: bitt

And tens of millions are probably “circling back” to the Biden bank accounts . . .


11 posted on 07/24/2022 2:44:38 PM PDT by MCSETots
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tens of millions?

Pedo Joe “PJ” gets 10%

try tens of BILLIONS


12 posted on 07/24/2022 2:46:55 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: bitt; UMCRevMom@aol.com

Heads up


13 posted on 07/24/2022 2:57:36 PM PDT by thinden (buckle up.....)
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To: bitt

This regime is certainly lawless.


14 posted on 07/24/2022 3:36:58 PM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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15 posted on 07/24/2022 3:38:54 PM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: bitt

It may be Hugh but is it Series?


16 posted on 07/24/2022 3:43:30 PM PDT by Fledermaus (With Trans Republicans like McCarthy and McConnell do we really want them to win Congress in 2022?)
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Wash, rinse, repeat.


17 posted on 07/24/2022 3:47:41 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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Stealing from the public treasury. Not only a high crime, thus impeachable, but a literal felony offense.


18 posted on 07/24/2022 5:07:45 PM PDT by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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I repeatedly read of money that Joe Bitem and his pirates are spending THAT THE CONGRESS HAS NOT AUTHORIZED. I realize this may be archaic thinking but that is not only unsettling - it is unconstitutional!

For this gang to ignore the IG and the Congress only indicates to me that they don't have much fear of losing in November, indeed that they think that they will consolidate their power.

May God grant that they are terribly deceived!

19 posted on 07/24/2022 7:25:00 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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