{"id":941853,"date":"2021-10-30T13:59:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T17:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=941853"},"modified":"2021-10-30T13:59:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T17:59:40","slug":"special-inspector-general-for-afghanistan-says-dod-state-dept-not-making-reporting-on-afghan-war-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/special-inspector-general-for-afghanistan-says-dod-state-dept-not-making-reporting-on-afghan-war-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Inspector General for Afghanistan says DOD, State Dept. not making reporting on Afghan war easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fspecial-inspector-general-for-afghanistan-says-dod-state-dept-not-making-reporting-on-afghan-war-easy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=941853&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2565556\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2565556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afghan children play among the ruins of houses destroyed by war in Salar village, Wardak province, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021.In urban centers, public discontent toward the Taliban is focused on threats to personal freedoms, including the rights of women. In Salar, these barely resonate. The ideological gap between the Taliban leadership and the rural conservative community is not wide. Many villagers supported the insurgency and celebrated the Aug. 15 fall of Kabul which consolidated Taliban control across the country. (AP Photo\/Felipe Dana)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 10:17 AM PT \u2013 Saturday, October 30, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction claims several federal agencies are trying to censor his reporting on the 20-year-war in the country.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sigar.mil\/pdf\/speeches\/SIGAR_MRE_Speech_2021-10-29.pdf\"> During a speech Friday<\/a>, John Sopko said the State Department and Pentagon made several requests to redact items from their reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShortly after the fall of Kabul, the State Department wrote to me and other oversight agencies requesting to \u2018temporarily suspend access\u2019 to all \u2018audit, inspection, and financial audit reports\u2019 on our website,\u201d he explained. \u201cBecause the Department was afraid that information included in those reports could put Afghan allies at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sopko alleged that the State Department made around 2,400 requests following Joe Biden\u2019s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. Additionally, he said the Department of Defense has been leaning on him to redact information since the Obama administration to block the release of data on casualties and operational deficiencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn essence, nearly all the information you needed to know to determine whether the Afghan security forces were a real fighting force or a house of cards waiting to fall,\u201d Sopko continued. \u201cIn light of recent events, it is not surprising that the Afghan government, and likely some in DOD, wanted to keep that information under lock and key.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SIGARHQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SIGARHQ<\/a> John Sopko: &#8220;If better monitoring &amp; evaluation processes had been in place\u2026many of the problems that contributed to the rapid collapse of the Afghan state could have been corrected. Measuring success by focusing on dollars and cents is no substitute for common sense.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7rKd9qBC0k\">pic.twitter.com\/7rKd9qBC0k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1445805018339319808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sopko urged journalists, members of Congress and bureaucrats to come together to accurately inform the American taxpayer about the war that cost nearly $2.5 trillion.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/supreme-court-to-hear-major-second-amendment-case\/\">Supreme Court To Hear Major Second Amendment Case<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan children play among the ruins of houses destroyed by war in Salar village, Wardak province, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021.In urban centers, public discontent toward the Taliban is focused &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}