US Wasted Millions Of Dollars On Afghan Police Cars That Don't Exist

[Wehrwolfen]

US Wasted Millions Of Dollars On Afghan Police Cars That Don't Exist​

Paul Szoldra
Jan. 24, 2013

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The U.S. unnecessarily paid $6.3 million on contracts for Afghan police vehicles from April 2011 to September 2012, according to a report released last week from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR).

The latest gross overpayment stems largely from cash going to maintenance on vehicles that have been out of service for over a year or even had been destroyed.

As of November 2012, the U.S. has provided over 30,000 vehicles to the Afghan National Police (ANP), but the study shows a force still struggling with logistics and training needed to provide their own maintenance — forcing the U.S. to rely on outside contractors.

According to national security expert Anthony Cordesman, the U.S. is at least partly to blame.

"The bulk of the money actually spent inside Afghanistan went through poorly supervised military contracts and through aid projects where the emphasis was speed, projected starts, and measuring progress in terms of spending rather than results," he wrote in a brief for the Center for Strategic & International Studies.

This isn't the first such report from SIGAR. A cursory look at their website finds allegations of fraud, waste, and abuse as common in Afghanistan as dirt.

One report highlighted major problems with the country's financial sector, where the U.S. still has extremely limited visibility over the cash it doles out, "leaving [it] vulnerable to fraud or diversion to insurgents."

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[Clementine]

We need to announce to the world that the Bank of Tax Payers is bankrupt and out of business. We can't give them what we don't have. We send billions and see no positive change. We see more violence, which was made possible by Obama's support and a grant from the U.S. tax payers. I'm sure a lot of money is going directly to terrorist's hands, like it did with Morsi. The Muslim Brotherhood is an evil group and we give them money, planes and weapons.

Yet, Obama ignores our allies and spoils our enemies.

It's all going to blow up in our face - literally.

 

[bucs90]

Wow. So we have hundreds of police depts right here in the USA that are understaffed, underfunded, and cant afford bullet proof vests, practice ammo and enough cars for patrols.

And yet...right wingers will defend to their death the spending of countless amounts of money on foreign police, but will fight to slash funds for local and state PD's here.

Just amazing.

 

[Political Junky]

Does anyone recall the $700,000,000. Embassy that Bush built in Iraq? It's bigger than the Vatican.

 

[bayoubill]

US Wasted Millions Of Dollars On Afghan Police Cars That Don't Exist

The auditors need to go back and look for camels painted black and white... with flashing lights mounted on their humps...

I 'spect that might account for the shortfall...

 

[tyroneweaver]

remember when candidate obama said he would go through budget line by line and eliminate unnecessary spending