Pentagon Uncovers Dems Lost $63BILLION Of Taxpayer Money After It 'Disappeared'
During a Senate panel hearing on U.S. spending in Afghanistan a staffer from Senator Rand
Paul from Kentucky testified in writing that between 20 to 50 percent of the so-called
U.S. reconstruction funding in Afghanistan goes to waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption.
John Sopko, the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction revealed that,
in addition to the $126 billion devoted to reconstruction operation, the United States
had spent about $750 billion on the American military offensive alone since the war started
in October 2001, for an overall total "approaching $900 billion."
But in an odd turn of events according to the DoD IG, U.S. military leaders overseeing
operations in Afghanistan "failed to accurately record" some 95,000 vehicles transferred
to Afghan Armed Forces, along with fuel expenses and maintenance costs to keep the vehicles
operational.
The report issued last week was the last in a series of audits that examined the Pentagon
for "systemic challenges" in how senior officials oversee U.S. direct funding to the
Afghan Armed Forces said the Military Times.
"Up to half of the estimated $126 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds devoted to nation-building
efforts in Afghanistan are "misspent, mismanaged, or disappears entirely," a top staffer from
Sen. Rand Paul's (R-KY) office testified this week.
During a Senate panel hearing on U.S. spending in Afghanistan, Sergio Gor, Sen. Paul's
deputy chief of staff, indicated in written testimony that between 20 and 50 percent of
U.S. reconstruction funding in Afghanistan "goes to corruption, waste, fraud, and abuse."
John Sopko, the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), who
also testified before the Senate panel on Wednesday, noted in his written remarks that
there are different components to America's nation-building activities, including:
Rebuilding Afghanistan's national security forces, promoting the rule of law, fighting
widespread corruption and the narcotics trade, improving public health and education, promoting
respect for human rights, expanding electric and transportation infrastructure, and furthering
economic development.
Sopko revealed that, in addition to the $126 billion devoted to reconstruction operation,
the United States had spent about $750 billion on the American military offensive alone since
the war started in October 2001, for an overall total "approaching $900 billion."
The high-ranking staffer from the office of Sen. Paul, a staunch critic of the waste associated
with the Afghanistan war effort, added:
The United States needs to lessen our aid dramatically to Afghanistan.
So much of our aid is lost to waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption.
Some estimate that as much as 50% of our money is misspent, mismanaged, or disappears entirely.
According to recent testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the United States'
involvement in Afghanistan will cost taxpayers a whopping $45 billion in 2018.
Echoing Sopko, Gor acknowledged that it is difficult to determine a specific estimate
for the amount of U.S. dollars wasted in Afghanistan, telling lawmakers:
Corruption can range from literally billions of dollars disappearing, to preferential hiring
and nepotism.
Ministers tend to hire from within their own tribes, their own villages, or quite literally
from their immediate family.
Corruption is so rampant, we don't have a clue what percentage actually disappears
from the top line.
Oversight is greatly lacking.
In July 2017, Sopko told lawmakers that so much American taxpayer money is mismanaged
in Afghanistan that it is nearly impossible to determine what percentage of reconstruction
funds can be written off as waste, fraud, and abuse.
"All I can say is it's too much.
Way too much, billions, but I can't tell you what percentage," the inspector general
declared.
In citing examples of wasteful spending in Afghanistan, Gregory McNeill, a top Republican
staffer for the Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Federal Spending hosting the hearing Wednesday,
noted that Afghans are trashing tens of millions worth of U.S.-funded equipment before they
even take it out of the box.He told lawmakers via written testimony, "We had a whistleblower
contact us several years ago describing how new goods were being vastly over ordered,
shipped overseas, and then destroyed in Afghanistan – in their original packaging, brand new."
McNeill learned from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress's auditing arm, that
at least an estimated "$50 million worth of new, in the packaging, equipment was being
destroyed"
Despite the millions of American taxpayer dollars being trashed, the Defense Criminal
Investigative Service (DCIS) determined "nothing criminal was happening and it didn't warrant
further investigation," McNeill testified.
It was business as usual for the Pentagon, which received more money this year than any
other department in the history of the United States."
Now can someone please explain to me why we need to be nation building?
There are so many middle eastern nations who have so much money that they don't even
know what to do with but we American Taxpayers need to borrow more money from the Chinese
to rebuild nations which already hate us.
Can we please just collectively wake up as a nation, both right and left side of the
aisle and say "enough?"
We just don't have any more money.
Our own infrastructure is deteriorating before our very eyes but we are worried about a hotbed
of terrorism like Afghanistan?
Once we have to pay all this money back who will help us?
My guess is no one, we will be stuck giving away our national resources in place of money,
and liberals won't be able to say a damn thing about it.
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