DOD Task Force for Business and Stability Operations in Afghanistan: Preliminary Results Show Serious Management and Oversight Problems
Abstract
Over the past two years, SIGAR has received more complaints of waste, fraud, and abuse relating to TFBSO activities than for any other organization operating in Afghanistan. Since SIGAR began investigating TFBSO activities, we have conducted more than 50 interviews with former TFBSO officials and contractors, and several dozen more with other U.S. and Afghan government officials with knowledge of TFBSO activities. In addition, SIGAR obtained documents and records related to TFBSO activities from the Task Force before it ceased operations, as well as from contractors, in part through subpoenas. As a result of this work, SIGAR has issued several reports and initiated a number of active criminal investigations.2Appendix I contains detailed descriptions and associated outcomes of TFBSO projects examined by SIGAR, and Appendix II contains a complete list of TFBSO activities and associated outcomes. TFBSOs goals were to reduce violence, enhance stability, and support economic normalcy in Afghanistan.3 TFBSO was intended to contribute to U.S. government objectives in Afghanistan by bolstering a very weak Afghan economy. The Task Force produced some modest achievements, primarily related to its work in the extractives industries, about which SIGAR recently reported.4
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 20, 2016
- Accession Number
- AD1140089
Entities
People
- John Sopko
Organizations
- Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction