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Hundreds of millions of dollars are missing in
action in Afghanistan, and auditors are blaming the Pentagon’s flawed
accounting practices for the problem.
A new report
from the office of John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for
Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), revealed that there’s virtually no
way to know what happened to a large chunk of money the Defense
Department spent in Afghanistan before 2010.
Related: $100 Billion in Aid Squandered in Afghanistan
The auditors said DOD handed over data only for
$21 billion of the total $66 billion it spent rebuilding the war-torn
country. But unlike most cases of missing money in Afghanistan (of which
there are plenty), the auditors don’t blame this on corruption or
waste—but rather on accounting issues.
The Commander’s Emergency Response Program, for
example, is set up in such a way that it’s extremely difficult to
monitor all of the money spent on the program’s projects. Under that
program, commanders may spend money to respond to emergencies like
floods and fires. Any expense below $500,000 isn’t treated as a
traditional defense contract and doesn’t have to be recorded in the same
way.
The Pentagon only had data for about 57 percent of the total $795 million spent by that program between the years 2002 and 2013.
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/04/01/45-Billion-Tax-Dollars-Goes-Missing-Afghanistan
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