Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO) Security and Housing Expenditures
Abstract
SIGARs preliminary review indicates that TFBSO leadership rented specially furnished, privately owned villas and hired contractors to provide 24-hour building security, food services, and bodyguards for TFBSO staff and visitors traveling in country. The contractors lived in TFBSO facilities, arranged transportation, and provided security details when TFBSO personnel traveled outside their compounds. If TFBSO employees had instead lived at DOD facilities in Afghanistan, where housing, security, and food service are routinely provided at little or no extra charge to DOD organizations, it appears the taxpayers would have saved tens of millions of dollars. Based on allegations we have received from former TFBSO employees and others, today I am writing to request information concerning TFBSOs decision to spend nearly $150 million, amounting to nearly 20 percent of its budget, on private housing and private security guards for its U.S. government employees in Afghanistan, rather than live on U.S military bases.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 25, 2015
- Accession Number
- AD1140116
Entities
People
- Brian P. Mckeon
- John Sopko
Organizations
- Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction