Senators question reconstruction oversight in Afghanistan

[unhappycamper]

Senators question reconstruction oversight in Afghanistan
By David Goldstein | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Friday, October 15, 2010

WASHINGTON — For the third time in less than two years, a bipartisan group of senators has raised alarms bells over problems with reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan.

Specifically, the four senators — Democrat Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Republicans Susan Collins of Maine, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Charles Grassley of Iowa — are upset about oversight of the reconstruction effort in Afghanistan and wonder why President Barack Obama has been slow to do something about it.

In a recent letter to the president, they called on Obama to remove Arnold Fields, a retired Marine Corps major general, from his post as Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, known as SIGAR.

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But “it is flat wrong that the president has not taken action to remove this inspector general,” she said. “Billions of dollars are at stake. We need our strongest inspector general in this position, not one who falls so short in an objective evaluation by other auditors.”

Since March 2009, McCaskill and her colleagues have claimed Fields’ office has done a poor job of overseeing how the money is being spent.



unhappycamper comment: I would agree that the Afghanistan IG needs to be actively involved looking for corruption, waste, fraud and abuse. I do however question the fact that Grassley, Collins and Coburn are on this issue. What happened to the Party Of No?

[w8liftinglady]

1. I think The Party of No has been silent on this one...

They are still getting filthy rich off of it...keep up the slow works,Boys!“Billions of dollars are at stake."

[Scruffy1]

2. Its just business as usual

Unlimited war profits. Endless war. what's not to like. Does anyone trally believe a rich white man will evr be held accountable in America. Mozilla pays a fine, Koch pays a fine when he was caught stealing, but your poor ass will go to prison for any petty crime. "The law in its majestic equality forbids both the rich and the poor from begging, stealing bread, and sleeping under bridges."