Billions Keep Flowing to Afghanistan, State Dept. Blocks Audit to Disclose Where Money is Going (Connecting the Dots: USAID, IRS, Afghanistan, Military, Soros All Networking for the Taxpayers Dollars)

Billions Keep Flowing to Afghanistan, State Dept. Blocks Audit to Disclose Where Money is Going (Connecting the Dots: USAID, IRS, Afghanistan, Military, Soros All Networking for the Taxpayers Dollars)

JUNE 24, 2022

JUDICIAL WATCH

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The U.S. has dropped a ghastly $146 billion on Afghanistan reconstruction in the last two decades and billions more continue to be spent, but the Biden administration is blocking federal auditors from conducting their congressionally mandated job of investigating where the money is going. For months the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has been trying to investigate the abrupt collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan, if the State Department is complying with laws and regulations prohibiting the transfer of funds to the Taliban and ongoing humanitarian programs supporting the Afghan people. However, the State Department and its offshoot, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), refuse to cooperate as required by law.

This month the head of SIGAR, John F. Sopko, expressed outrage at the State Department’s efforts to obstruct his office’s investigation. In letters to congressional committees and Secretary of State Antony Blinken and USAID Administrator Samantha Power, Sopko reveals that the State Department has blown off more than 20 requests for information from his office in the last eight months. The watchdog writes that the sudden refusal to cooperate is particularly surprising after more than a decade of cooperation. “Billions of dollars have been spent in Afghanistan and billions more continue to be spent,” Sopko writes. “Congress and American taxpayers deserve to know why the Afghan government collapsed after all that assistance, where the money went, and how taxpayer money is now being spent in Afghanistan.”

The State Department recently informed SIGAR, which was created by Congress to provide independent and objective oversight of Afghanistan reconstruction projects and activities, that it would not cooperate with future financial audits. Instead, Sopko writes, the State Department told him from now on it would choose its own auditors. The watchdog reminds the State Department that it is prohibited by law from preventing his office from carrying out its duties and that its authorizing statutes specifically states no officer from the Department of Defense, the Department of State, or the United States Agency for International Development shall prevent or prohibit the Inspector General from initiating, carrying out, or completing any audit or investigation related to amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for the reconstruction of Afghanistan. “It should go without saying, but neither SIGAR’s authorizing statute nor the Inspector General Act of 1978 contain a “choose your own auditor” provision,” Sopko writes to Blinken.

Of greatest concern to the Afghanistan watchdog is the State Department’s refusal to provide basic information for an audit involving efforts to ensure that ongoing programs supporting the people of Afghanistan do not result in the illegal transfer of U.S. taxpayer funds to the Taliban or the Haqqani Network. “The fact that State and USAID would obstruct such oversight work, particularly after the Taliban’s seizure of governmental power in Afghanistan, is unprecedented,” Sopko writes. “Given the express prohibition against State and USAID officials preventing SIGAR from conducting its oversight work, it is also illegal.” The SIGAR concludes by writing that, as the U.S. government continues adding to the billions of dollars that it has already spent in Afghanistan since 2002, U.S. taxpayers deserve objective information concerning where their money is going and to whom it is being given.

The letters to the Secretary of State, USAID administrator and federal lawmakers come on the heels of a scathing SIGAR report about the collapse of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF). The U.S. allocated around $90 billion in security sector assistance to the ANDSF with the goal of developing an independent, self-sustaining force capable of combating threats. Nevertheless, the ANDSF collapsed paving the way for the Taliban to re-establish control of Afghanistan. SIGAR determined that “the single most important factor in the ANDSF’s collapse in August 2021 was the U.S. decision to withdraw military forces and contractors from Afghanistan…”

Connecting the Dots: 

Marc Grossman was a special representative for Afghanistan and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Richard C. Holbrooke was a special U.S. envoy for Afghanistan and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Zalmay Khalilzad was a U.S. ambassador for Afghanistan and is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Charles O. Rossotti is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank) the chairman for the AES Corporation and was a commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

John A. Koskinen is the commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and a director at the AES Corporation.

Moises Naim is a director at the AES Corporation, a global board member for the Open Society Foundations, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and was a board member for the International Crisis Group.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank) and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).          

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a board member for the International Crisis Group, a friend of Michael Douglas and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the International Rescue Committee and the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Samantha Power was a board member for the International Crisis Group, a director at the International Rescue Committee, Barack Obama’s aide, is the United Nations U.S. ambassador for the Barack Obama administration and married to Cass R. Sunstein.

Jessica Tuchman Mathews was a board member for the International Crisis Group,

the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Eugene Habiger is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and was a commander in chief for the U.S. Strategic Command.

Michael Douglas is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and a friend of George Soros.

Warren E. Buffett is an adviser for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), and a trustee & major donor for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), the International Rescue Committee, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Cass R. Sunstein is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and married to Samantha Power.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Zalmay Khalilzad is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank) and was a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (think tank).

David F. Heyman was a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (think tank) and is the assistant Homeland Security secretary for the Barack Obama administration.

Antony Blinken was a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (think tank) and is the national security adviser to the vice president for the Barack Obama administration.

James E. Cartwright is the Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies for the Center for Strategic International Studies (think tank) and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Brent Scowcroft is a trustee at the Center for Strategic International Studies (think tank), the chair, international advisory board for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and a friend of Henry A. Kissinger.

Henry A. Kissinger is a friend of Brent Scowcroft, a trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (think tank) and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

John R. Allen is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank) and was a commander for the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.

David H. Petraeus is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank) and was a commanding officer for the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.

James E. Cartwright was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank) and a commander for the U.S. Strategic Command.

Marc Grossman was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank) and a special representative for Afghanistan.

Richard C. Holbrooke was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank) and a special U.S. envoy for Afghanistan.

Zalmay Khalilzad is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank) and was a U.S. ambassador for Afghanistan.

Charles O. Rossotti is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank) the chairman for the AES Corporation and was a commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

John A. Koskinen is the commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and a director at the AES Corporation.

Moises Naim is a director at the AES Corporation, a global board member for the Open Society Foundations, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and was a board member for the International Crisis Group.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank) and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).          

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a board member for the International Crisis Group, a friend of Michael Douglas and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Michael Douglas is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and a friend of George Soros.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982    

(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for “Population Control” by involving the United States in war)     

http://www.illuminati-news.com/110106a.htm    

Resources: Part Research 

EXCLUSIVE: Top U.S. Watchdog: ‘We’re Drowning Afghans in Money’ (Past Research on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) & Afghanistan)

SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/07/exclusive-top-us-watchdog-were-drowning.html 

Jeff Kuhner on Gay Marriage and Population Control (Past Research on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2014

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/04/jeff-kuhner-on-gay-marriage-and.html

3 Networking with Soros in the Biden Administration (Past Research on Samantha Power)

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2021

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2021/11/3-networking-with-soros-in-biden.html

Private foundation (Past Research on the Brookings Institution (think tank))

SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 2015

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/01/private-foundation.html 

Brzezinski to Newsmax: Shutdown's 'Uncertainty' Hurts US Foreign Policy (Past Research on Antony Blinken & the Center for Strategic International Studies (think tank))

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/10/brzezinski-to-newsmax-shutdowns.html