{"id":1877,"date":"2013-07-17T14:01:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2013-07-17T14:01:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:01:45","slug":"mccaskill-questions-wasteful-military-spending-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/mccaskill-questions-wasteful-military-spending-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"McCaskill questions wasteful military spending (AUDIO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Bob Priddy, MissouriNet
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A checkup by a Senate subcommittee of how well government agencies are eliminating wasteful spending in Afghanistan turns into some close questioning of a prime example.\u00a0 Senator McCaskill\u2019s Wartime Contracting Reforms law is about a year old.\u00a0 Unfortunately, she says, it applies only the projects going forward, not problems now in Afghanistan.\u00a0\u00a0 One problem is a $34-million, 64,000 square foot military headquarters built after the military said it was not wanted.\u00a0 McCaskill says all indications now point to it being torn down. \u201cWe can\u2019t even give it away to the Afghanistan government\u2026because they don\u2019t want a building (on which) they will have to spend millions to rewire because it was built to U.S. electrical codes,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

A top defense department official says he has no explanation.\u00a0 But he says an Army investigation will be finished in 30-60 days. McCaskill wants the report to name the official who gave the go-ahead for the project.<\/p>\n

McCaskill also questions the effectiveness of the Agency for International Development\u2019s efforts to get Afghan farmers to stop growing poppies that are turned into heroin are worth the money being spent. She has asked a director the the AID when it\u2019s time to throw in the towel.\u00a0 He says he\u2019ll have to gather information and get back to her.<\/p>\n

Although she\u2019s critical of some programs, McCaskill says the Departments of Defense and State, and the U.S. AID program are making strong progress.<\/p>\n

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by Bob Priddy, MissouriNet click here for original article A checkup by a Senate subcommittee of how well government agencies are eliminating wasteful spending in Afghanistan turns into some close questioning of a prime example.\u00a0 Senator McCaskill\u2019s Wartime Contracting Reforms law is about a year old.\u00a0 Unfortunately, she says, it applies only the projects going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t