Follow-up story today: Do

artappraiser — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 20:20:06 +0000

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Follow-up story today:

Do we know how much US money is going to the Taliban in Afghanistan?
The short answer is 'no.' But there are worrying signs to be found in US auditing of its own contracting practices in Afghanistan.

By Dan Murphy, Christian Science Monitor, August 6, 2013

Last week I wrote about the clearly frustrated letter John F. Sopko, the US government's Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, wrote to Congress about the difficulty the US seems to have with stemming the flow of US taxpayer money to the Taliban and Al Qaeda [....]

Since then, I've done some more reading about the specific allegations over Pentagon, US Agency for International Development (USAID), and other branches of the US government giving lucrative contracts to supporters of the very people that US soldiers are in Afghanistan to fight. [....]

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Follow-up story today: Do