A gun from the Panzer Howitzer platoon, Kamp Holland, Tarin Kowt, June 14, 2007.
Credit: David Axe
WASHINGTON — A total of $1.3 billion that the Pentagon shipped to its force commanders in Afghanistan between 2004 and 2014 for the most critical reconstruction projects can’t be accounted for by the Defense Department, 60 percent of all such spending under an emergency program, an internal report released Thursday shows.
About 70 percent of the $100 billion the United States has spent to rebuild Afghanistan during 13 1/2 years of war has gone through the Pentagon, with the rest distributed by the US Agency for International Development and other civilian departments. A small portion of the Pentagon’s money went directly to American military officers there in a bid to bypass bureaucracy and rush the aid to urgently needed roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, water-treatment plants and other essential infrastructure.
A yearlong investigation by John F. Sopko, the US special inspector general for Afghanistan […]
Dr. Steven Greer, who runs The Disclosure Project, concerned with UFO’s, has stated on many occasions, that there is a secret underground government in the US that accounts for untold billions of $$ squandered, without presidential or other fiscal oversight. Now this too is becoming public. I fear for the US, that it may be beyond help, as it veers toward a second violent revolution. There are simply too many guns with too many people feeling quite powerless. Your democracy there, like ours here in Canada, is a sham, not even verifiable on paper any more.