US taxpayers have spent more than $110 billion to help rebuild war-torn Afghanistan. Are we getting our money’s worth?
Not by a long shot, according to the latest report from the government’s spending watchdog — the Special Inspector General of Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) — which examined 44 Department of Defense (DoD) reconstruction projects that cost a combined $1.1 billion.
SIGAR found that nearly two-thirds of the projects “did not meet contract requirements or technical specifications.”
And it gets worse: more than one-third of them had “deficiencies so severe that they threatened the structural integrity of the buildings and of the buildings’ occupants.”... READ MORE
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