Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, appointed by President Obama in 2012
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John Sopko
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FROM John Sopko
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Americans Have Paid for "Ghost Schools" in Afghanistan After 13 years in Afghanistan, and the loss of 2000 American lives, victories have been hard to come by. So US officials, including Hillary Clinton, when she was Secretary of State, have claimed that educating Afghan children has been a one-billion dollar success story.
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John Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction The US has made a major commitment to help rebuild Afghanistan after more than a decade of warfare. That means billions of future taxpayer dollars, in addition to the $103 billion already spent.
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US Aid to Afghanistan Flows Despite Warnings of Misuse More than a billion dollars in US aid will flow to the government of Afghanistan in this year alone, despite years of warnings about corruption. Today, the Inspector General, created by Congress and appointed by President Obama, reported that not one of that country's 16 ministries can be counted on to prevent money from being stolen or wasted.
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