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According to reports it determined that funds from a $2.16 billion trucking contract eventually found their way to the Taliban through a payment form a subcontractor to a corrupt local official, who then paid money and guns to the Taliban.
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Last year ABC News' Nick Schifrin spoke with two American trucking executives who detailed a sophisticated payment scheme under which companies with massive Pentagon contracts pay large bribes to insurgent groups, warlords, and even corrupt Afghan officials, police, and soldiers in order to win safe passage for their vehicles.
Yet another arguement for smaller government. Unfreeking believable lack of oversight. Similar thing is happening right now in Libya as NATO nations give $$ and arms to Al Qaeda.
Is Ron Paul right about foreign policy? Sure seems so...
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