CIA spreads cash far and wide in search for bin Laden

SFGate ^

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Just as the CIA spent several hundred million dollars in $100 bills on hand- picked warlords to help motivate and arm ground forces in the war in Afghanistan, agents have been given stacks of U.S. currency to spend in Yemen, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, among other countries.

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now the press says several hundred million in unmarked bills spread around afghanistan, instead of the 70 million cited in woodward's book?

what's the relevance of 'unmarked' and exaggerating the amounts if not to discredit these efforts on our part as being shady and profligate