Teh One Who Knocks
12-04-2015, 01:45 PM
By Michael Allen - Opposing Views
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John F. Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), asked U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in a letter on Nov. 25 about $150 million that was approved by the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO). The letter was released to the public on Dec. 3.
“SIGAR’s preliminary review indicates that TFBSO leadership rented specially furnished, privately owned ‘villas’ and hired contractors to provide 24-hour building security, food services, and bodyguards for TFBSO staff and visitors traveling in country,” Sopko wrote in the letter, notes RT.com.
Sopko added that the U.S. government could have saved “tens of millions of dollars” by having TFBSO employees live on U.S. military bases in Afghanistan from 2010 to 2014.
Sopko said the TFBSO employees who were treated to this luxury at “no more than five to 10.”
Sopko noted that TFBSO’s first director Paul Brinkley (pictured, left) said that the luxury accommodations in Afghanistan were supposed to show private companies “that they could set up operations in Afghanistan themselves without needing military support.”
Sopko also mentioned that TFSBO had spent $43 million on a gas station that could have been built for $500,000. In response, TFSBO told Sopko that it “no longer possess[es] the personnel expertise to address these questions.”
TFBSO was supposed to be stabilizing the economies of Iraq and Afghanistan from 2010 to 2014 while millions of American taxpayers were losing their homes and their jobs.
In 2010, a whopping 2,871,891 U.S. properties were in foreclosure at the peak of the housing crash, noted Reuters. 1,117,426 properties were in foreclosure proceedings in 2014. In 2010, unemployment was between 10 and 9 percent.
In response to the report of massive waste, Pentagon spokesman Army Lieutenant Colonel Joe Sowers said in a statement: “We have received the recent letter from SIGAR and will respond."
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John F. Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), asked U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in a letter on Nov. 25 about $150 million that was approved by the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO). The letter was released to the public on Dec. 3.
“SIGAR’s preliminary review indicates that TFBSO leadership rented specially furnished, privately owned ‘villas’ and hired contractors to provide 24-hour building security, food services, and bodyguards for TFBSO staff and visitors traveling in country,” Sopko wrote in the letter, notes RT.com.
Sopko added that the U.S. government could have saved “tens of millions of dollars” by having TFBSO employees live on U.S. military bases in Afghanistan from 2010 to 2014.
Sopko said the TFBSO employees who were treated to this luxury at “no more than five to 10.”
Sopko noted that TFBSO’s first director Paul Brinkley (pictured, left) said that the luxury accommodations in Afghanistan were supposed to show private companies “that they could set up operations in Afghanistan themselves without needing military support.”
Sopko also mentioned that TFSBO had spent $43 million on a gas station that could have been built for $500,000. In response, TFSBO told Sopko that it “no longer possess[es] the personnel expertise to address these questions.”
TFBSO was supposed to be stabilizing the economies of Iraq and Afghanistan from 2010 to 2014 while millions of American taxpayers were losing their homes and their jobs.
In 2010, a whopping 2,871,891 U.S. properties were in foreclosure at the peak of the housing crash, noted Reuters. 1,117,426 properties were in foreclosure proceedings in 2014. In 2010, unemployment was between 10 and 9 percent.
In response to the report of massive waste, Pentagon spokesman Army Lieutenant Colonel Joe Sowers said in a statement: “We have received the recent letter from SIGAR and will respond."