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Afghan Reconstruction Efforts Mired In Corruption

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Corruption, Sigar, Afghanistan, Private Security Contractors, Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction, Afghan Public Protection Force, World News

WASHINGTON -- Afghan reconstruction efforts remain severely hampered even after nearly $100 billion in spending over the last 10 years, according to ...

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But That Is Another Story

David Isenberg | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Usaid, Private Military Security Contractors, Sigar, Afghanistan, Afghan Public Protection Force, Business News

Perhaps the private military and security industry is right; maybe using contractors IS more cost-effective than using regular military folks. But is that really the case?

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The Cost Of Deploying One Civilian To Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Afghanistan Civilian Uplift, State Department Inspector General, Cost of Afghanistan War, Sigar, Special Inspector General for Afghanistna Reconstruction, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- U.S. taxpayers have spent nearly $2 billion since 2009 on deploying civilians to Afghanistan, according to a new report by the Special I...

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Key Afghanistan Reconstruction Watchdog Spot Still Vacant

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Rep Mike Honda, Herb Richardson, Afghanistan-Watchdog, Sigar, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Reconstruction, Arnold Fields, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, Claire McCaskill, Afghanistan War, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- As the Obama administration begins to draw down U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the war effort undergoes significant transition, the of...

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CWC on PMC in Afghanistan

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Construction, Private Military Contractor, Sigar, Afghanistan, Commission on Wartime Contracting, Business News

This past Monday the always useful Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan held a hearing. The topic was "Recurring problems in Afghan construction."

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Watchdog: U.S. Risks Wasting Billions In Afghan Security Aid Given 'Inadequate Planning'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan Aid, Afghan Security Forces, Sigar, Afghanistan, ITT Corporation, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, Arnold Fields, Afghan Police, Afghan Army, Afghanistan War, World News

WASHINGTON -- The United States is at risk of wasting roughly $11.4 billion unless it comes up with a plan for constructing and maintaining nearly 900...

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Embattled Afghan Watchdog Resigns As Calls For Oversight Grow

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stuart Bowen, John Tierney, Charles Grassley, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Corruption, Arnold Fields, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, Susan Collins, Tom Coburn, Chuck Grassley, Afghanistan Oversight, Sigar, Jason Chaffetz, Claire McCaskill, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Arnold Fields, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, stepped down Monday amid widespread congressional dissatisf...

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U.S. Watchdog For Afghan Contracting Resigns

McClatchy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghan Watchdog, Arnold Fields, Afghanistan, Sigar, Afpak, Afghanistan Watchdog, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, Afghanistan War, World News

The embattled top watchdog of U.S. contracting in Afghanistan announced Monday that he was resigning days after vowing to resist congressional demands...

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Pentagon's Afghan Review to Reveal Rampant Waste, Fraud, and Corruption?

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Pentagon report due out this week will probably try to convince us that the war in Afghanistan is on the right track. And yet a poll released this month surveying Afghan public opinion says otherwise.

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The Ecstasy and Agony of SIGAR

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senate, Private Military Security Contractors, Sigar, Afghanistan, Business News

One of the consequences or perhaps accomplishments is the better word, of the use of private military and security contractors in the U.S. wars in Afg...

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Arnold Fields, Afghanistan Reconstruction Watchdog, BLASTED By Congress

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Contractors, Afghanistan, Afghan, Rebuilding, Arnold Fields, Contracts, Inspector General, Tom Coburn, Fraud, Claire McCaskill, Sigar, Chuck Grassley, Ig, Waste, Tommy Vietor, Corruption, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The U.S. official charged with combating corruption in the multibillion-dollar effort to rebuild Afghanistan failed Thursday to con...

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The Louis Berger Group: It May Be a Crook But At Least Its Our Crook

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Private Military Contractor, Sigar, Afghanistan, Business News

Are charges that private military contractors commit egregious acts of fraud overblown? Not according to recent news. McClatchy Newspapers reports th...

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Planting the Seeds

Kathy Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Soviets Afghanistan, Kabul, Sigar, Afghanistan, Corruption, Welfare, Karzai, Peshawar, Grassroots, Agriculture, Community, Afghanistan-Soviet War, Soviet Union, Mujahideen, World News

After stories of death and dislocation from the Soviet invasion of 1979, and now from the American occupation, Nur Akbari imagines communities learning to provide for themselves.

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The U.S. Has No Idea How Much Taxpayer Money It's Burning on the Afghanistan Bonfire

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sigar, Afghanistan, Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction, Kabul Bank, Rethink Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Karzai, Afghanistan War, World News

The military push enabled by the escalations in Afghanistan isn't working, and the ally we're relying on is a corrupt fraud, and the spending we're doing to support that ally is being handed out with little accountability.

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A "Comprehensive Civilian/Military Effort" in Afghanistan? Hardly.

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

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A new report out today by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction gives lie to the Pentagon's assertion of a "comprehensive civil and military effort" in Kandahar.

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US Attacks Taliban Funding, 'Like Punching Jello'

GlobalPost | Douglas Wissing | Posted 05.25.2011

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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The United States government is widening its investigation into reports that U.S. aid and development funds in Afghanistan are b...

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