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US agencies resistant to Afghanistan oversight

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Since the U.S. withdrawal a government watchdog is offering a grim update on life in Afghanistan while since the Taliban takeover chastising American agencies for rebuffing its attempts to review their efforts in the country. In the troubled nation for over a decade the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), which has been reviewing multiple agencies’ work, said on early Wednesday that it has never faced this level of resistance to its oversight duties. The agency wrote in its quarterly report to Congress that “SIGAR, for the first time in its history, is unable this quarter to provide Congress and the American people due to the non-cooperation of several U.S. government agencies with a full accounting of this U.S. government spending”. “The Treasury Department refused to cooperate with SIGAR in any capacity and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which administers the majority of U.S. government spending for Afghanistan ”. ...