Biden Administration Sends Taliban $239 Million in Error
Taliban are seeing their heyday since Biden was put into the White House. Not only did the Biden administration hand Taliban the country’s control in less than a year after its inauguration but has since funded the extremist Islamists with well over $200 million seemingly in an error arising out of the State Department’s incompetence.
Last week, Judicial Watch posted about an audit report from the office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) released earlier in July. According to the report, the State Department has disbursed nearly $240 million to organizations that benefitted the Taliban. The State Department was found to have failed to follow its own counterterrorism vetting requirements for organizations in Afghanistan before releasing the funds to them. The SIGAR report says:
In total, State could not demonstrate compliance with its partner vetting requirements on awards that disbursed at least $293 million in Afghanistan. State officials acknowledged that not all bureaus complied with document retention requirements.
Judicial Watch reminded that last year it had reported how Taliban had set up fake non-profits to steal millions of U.S. dollars in taxpayer money actually meant to benefit the vulnerable people in Afghanistan. The conservative organization wrote in November last year that Taliban were stealing US funds from non-profits supposedly working to educate the Afghan population:
Specifically, the Taliban is benefiting from American education funding through the establishment of fraudulent NGOs to receive donor assistance, according to an audit published recently by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR).
In April 2023, media reported on the testimony of the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, John Sopko, before the House Oversight Committee. Spoko told the lawmakers that the U.S. government provided billions in taxpayer money to Taliban and other terror groups in Afghanistan. He said:
“Unfortunately, as I sit here today, I cannot assure you we are not now funding the Taliban. Nor can I assure you the Taliban are not diverting it from the intended recipients, which are the Afghan people.”
It is worth noting that the U.S. State Department does not list Taliban in Afghanistan as a terrorist group but it does list the Pakistani Taliban as terrorists. This is the case despite the fact, as the Voice of America (VOA) explained in a 2017 article, that Afghan Taliban meet both criteria for being declared a terrorist organization by the State Department: engaging in terrorism and threatening the security of U.S. nationals or the national security of the United States. The article described the reason Taliban in Afghanistan are not on the U.S. terror list as:
“…a concern that applying the terror label to the group would restrict U.S. and Afghan government diplomatic contacts with the Taliban, making peace talks more difficult.”
More recently, the Biden administration attracted attention by announcing a plea deal to spare three terrorists behind the 9/11 attacks the death penalty. The news broke on Thursday (August 01) that the three terrorists – Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin ‘Attash, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi – would be spared the death penalty. A fierce and instant backlash, mainly from conservatives, followed the news and slammed the Biden administration for going soft on terror. The next day, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin announced that he had revoked the plea deal and the official in charge of the commission that signed off on the deal had been fired.
Afghan Taliban is not on terror list. Pakistani Taliban is on the terror list. Dempsey is a fake name to hide the fact that Khan is from Pakistan. Bin Laden was from Pakistan too. He lived in a small town, Khan Dempsey lived in a small town in Pakistan too.
Id Dempsey is a fake name, tell that to Ernest. I’m sure he would appreciate your making him a non-person. keep up the good work, you are really cutting it. And where is UYOUR proof of what you said?
Typo, oops. *If
AF u should learn how to look things up yourself. ED is found flaccidly across the entire web: here’s the Amazon version:
“Karim Khan, pen named Ernest Dempsey, hails from Hangu, a small town in Pakistan. As a child, he enjoyed two things: The joyful company of his brother and Khan’s best friend, Shais; and making airy castles with lots of characters in his mind. At twelve, he started writing detective stories, horror, thrillers, and humor. He has a Masters degree in Geology and one in English Literature.
He has authored four books and, in just the last few years, seen the publication of his poems, essays, short stories, and literary reviews worldwide. He is now the editor-in-chief of the journal magazine “Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing” and works as an independent freelance writer and editor. Khan is an advocate for human rights, animal rights, and environmental protection.”
The pic is here: *https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B002IGL2R4/about* If you review his early books, look woke or like real gender-bender subjects.
Titles include: Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. VI, No. 2) –this is a group grope where ED is the editor. Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through the lenses of poetry, memoir, opinion, essays, fiction, humor, art, media reviews and psycho-education. Contributors to RTS Journal come from around the globe to deliver unique perspectives you won’t find anywhere else!
And they get more gay.
Face it: ED figured you guys are easy marks to fool. You couldn’t figure the scam for love nor money. His town is just a few hours drive from Bin Ladin’s house.
And the real Earnest Dempsey, a real author from Chattanooga, Tennessee, with over 60 books, mostly sci-fi is pissed and wants ED to cease and desist as ED is making him worse than a non–person, a Trumplicant from Pakistan.
Hi, Stetsybaby. I do look things up. I do 15 to 17 hours a day for the last 10 years of investigative work and research. I have all I need to know and still look for more information. I don’t need you to tell me how to do my work. rereading your first post and your second to me, it looks like you have an ED problem. Can’t be denied now, can it? I hope you get a good laugh out of my words. I think I will have a chat with Ernest.
Well u certainly didn’t look this up. And I didn’t tell you how, I just said, and still do, that you should. And you didn’t but whined about instead.
You can be earnest with ernest but he don’t talk. He just spews right wing crap after he got over being woke and would rather he paid. And you guys will even believe a guy who grew up in bin laden’s back yard if he spews Trumplore.
Fools and their money….
Bathhouse Barry Obama said that Biden was good at fucking up
Why does Archie know Obama, married, father, is gay?
And can he source that quite about Biden?
He siynds very close to Obama.
This is interesting. California lost, misplaces, disappeared 22 billion dollars. Oregon somehow lost 12 billion dollars. Washington state someone lost piles of money twice. Minnesota lost piles of money twice. How the federal governemtn magically accidentally sends the Taliban money.
All of these democrat run governments and all magically have money gone with no real explanation.
this is not a mistake this is what corruption looks like.
NOT a mistake, either total carelessness or intentional. But no one will get fired or punished in ANY way I would bet.
why did the dmeocrats raise taxes on everyone when it is clear the problem is not the money they bring in it is how badly the dmeocrats manage the money they bring in.
If you want lower taxes you start by firing every single democrat everywhere.
What taxes on who, how much, and when are you talking Ray?
When the highest office in the land does something that looks wrong, It is NOT.
Everything done with this administration that looks bad was done on purpose.
Afghanistan withdrawn was a pay off!
It started there and is still going on to this day.
Mistakes in the Democrat party do NOT happen.
All the way to the debate.
This was done to get Biden out.
Remember the GOD FATHER!
The one who sets up the meeting is the traitor!
Thank you CNN and the people pulling their strings.
Look at things from a distance – Like the assassination attempt, it will all make sense!
Well, Frankie, no I didn’t look that one up. There really are way too many things to look up. It wasn’t on my list. It didn’t come across my desk. I really don’t care about one man from another country. I have certain other things to look up that is far more important than someone from Pakistan that isn’t in the “political scene for the people that do the requests. As usual, your narcissism spoils anything I have to say or report. You don’t like to treat people as human. You want robots you can control. Slaves you can slam anytime you want to. I don’t care what you have to say to me. I give as I get! Too bad if you don’t like it. Who cares? We can’t carry on a dialog without you nastily slamming everyone except the ones on your side. AGAIN, this IS a Conservative site, you are so far left you are pathetic. Pathetic! So, who the Hell do you think you are? You don’t own me. You never ever will. I have a lot more for you in future postings. Get that through your anti human pea brain! I like that. I think I will start calling you pea brain. And I thought for a while we could be friends. You destroyed that, too!
AF u seem to have taken a turn here into ad hominem attacks, condemnation for liberalism, and name calling blaming me for your frustrations.
Have a better day.
You use name calling or I wouldn’t have done it. You reap what you sow. I told you – I give what I get. You name call, I name call. Go back through your past posts. There’s that time, too where you said for me to fuck off. So, Mr. Professor of Everything, same back at you. No, I do not like liberalism. I will be no man’s slave. I will pay no man unwarranted taxes. I will eat the food of MY choice. I could go on and on listing things you are in love with. I don’t have the time to devote to low-class idiots. You also use a lot of very big words. I understand them, but most people do not. Does that make you feel like a big man? Not to me! I am human and deserve to be treated good. You decided to make me your whipping post. That’s when things got out of hand. You are liberal. This is a C ON N S E R V A T I V E site. Or don’t you know what that is? I rather doubt it. When I have the time to read the articles on PBP and see your posts, I will be right in your face. You did this to yourself. This also goes to the others who slam real human beings on this site.
AF; You’re living in the past. You have to let go. Holding a grudge is just not productive.
Good luck to you.
Exactly what I have been trying to tell you, Mr. Narcissist. You did it again. How would you even know if I am living in the past? Are you me? Are you my brain? Nope, not even close……DO NOT EVER tell me what is in or on my mind, mister. You (aren’t) good enough. Stop trying to be everyone else and get help for your own self. Talk at you tomorrow.
ERNESTINE LIED BY SELECTIVE WORDING IN THE TITLE OF THIS ARTICLE!!! THE ACTUAL REPORT SAYS SOMETHING DIFFERENT
There are some very good reasons why the UN (not the Biden Admin) did these cash transfers to get money in the hands of the PIO’s and NGO’s to help with the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. Read the TRUTH from the U.S. State Dept. below: Or you can google *https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/evaluations/SIGAR-24-12-IP.pdf* and read the whole report for yourself.
This report discusses the results of SIGAR’s evaluation of the UN’s purchase, transport, and transfer of U.S.
currency for use in Afghanistan. Since August 2021, using international donor contributions, the UN has
purchased, transported, and transferred at least $2.9 billion in cash for use in Afghanistan. The U.S. is the
largest international donor to Afghanistan, having provided about $2.6 billion in funding to the UN, other public
international organizations (PIOs), and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operating in Afghanistan since
August 2021. More than $1.7 billion of that funding came from the Department of State (State) and the U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID) to support humanitarian activities implemented by PIOs and
NGOs, including the UN, the World Bank, and the Colombo Plan. However, donors make contributions to pooled
UN accounts, and donors—including State and USAID—cannot track how much of their contributions were used
to purchase cash for use in Afghanistan. We also found that the UN is the only organization known to be
purchasing and transporting cash, of any type, for humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan.
We found that multiple parties are required to secure and control the cash until it reaches its destination at a
private bank in Afghanistan. Humanitarian operations in Afghanistan will continue to rely on the UN to
purchase, transport, and transfer cash into Afghanistan until the country improves its banking sector, including
implementing measures to counter and prevent money laundering and terrorist financing, complying with
international banking laws, alleviating ongoing cash shortages, and developing sufficient internal controls and
infrastructure to allow for digital transactions. Although the transfer of cash will continue for the foreseeable
future, UN funding for humanitarian purposes in Afghanistan will likely decline due to the current decline in
donor contributions.
Lastly, we found some cash that the UN purchases and transfers to Afghanistan ultimately end up in the
Taliban-controlled central bank, Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), through the currency conversion process.
Because private Afghan banks and money exchangers typically do not hold large amounts of afghanis
(Afghanistan’s national currency), which are needed to purchase goods and services in some parts of the
country, the banks and money exchangers often use UN-provided U.S. dollars to purchase afghanis from the
Taliban-controlled DAB at currency auctions. Consequently, the Taliban have a large supply of U.S. dollars due
to DAB exchanging cash for international aid organizations.
We are not making any recommendations in this report. We received written comments on our draft report
from State’s Office of Afghanistan Affairs Director of and USAID’s Afghanistan Mission Director, which are
reproduced in appendices III and IV, respectively. State’s comments clarified statements on Afghanistan’s
banking sector, and noted that the U.S. and the UN maintain safeguards and monitoring over U.S. funding to
prevent its diversion and that State is unaware of electronic cash delivery systems that can meet the UN’s liquidity needs. In its comments, USAID thanked SIGAR for the opportunity to review the draft. Treasury also
reviewed a draft of this report and notified us that it had no formal comments. We updated the report, as
appropriate, based on technical comments from State, Treasury, and USAID.
SIGAR conducted this work under the authority of Public Law No. 110-181, as amended, and the Inspector
General Act of 1978, 5 U.S.C. Chapter 4; and in accordance with Quality Standards for Inspection and
Evaluation, published by the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency.
(i) SIGARI Office of the Special Inspector General
for Afghanistan Reconstruction
1550 Crystal Drive, 9th Floor
Arlington, Virginia 22202
Mailing 2530 Crystal Drive
Arlington, Virginia 22202-3940 Tel 703 545 6000 http://www.sigar.mil
liquidity needs. In its comments, USAID thanked SIGAR for the opportunity to review the draft. Treasury also
reviewed a draft of this report and notified us that it had no formal comments. We updated the report, as
appropriate, based on technical comments from State, Treasury, and USAID.
SIGAR conducted this work under the authority of Public Law No. 110-181, as amended, and the Inspector
General Act of 1978, 5 U.S.C. Chapter 4; and in accordance with Quality Standards for Inspection and
Evaluation, published by the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency.
John F. Sopko
Special Inspector General
for Afghanistan Reconstruction
Tom, nice job. Ouch, that’s just gotta hurt.
Thanks Frank. I felt this article definitely needed some truth and balance!!!
Apparently Ernestine does not realize how easy it is to fact check any spun article that involves U.S. Gov’t involvement with foreign governments. This is always the purview of the Secretary of State. They keep damn good records and write very good reports!
Glad you liked my post!
bY THE WAY FOR ALL YOU MAGA FOLKS, THIS PROCEDURE TO TRANSFER MONEY TO NGO’S AND PIO’S WAS STARTED UNDER G.W.BUSH AND CONTINUED UNDER TRUMP!
USAID is a CIA cutout. The CIA is the deepest of the deep-state.
The UN delegates are controlled by the hereditary global oligarchs. They want globalism. They want a world government controlled by the.
“By means of ever more effective methods of mind manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms… elections, parliaments, supreme courts and all the rest… will remain.
The underlying substance will be a new kind of Totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly like they were in the good old days. Democracy & freedom will be the theme of every broadcast & editorial. Meanwhile, the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite will quietly run the show as they see fit.” Aldous Huxley, 1962
Only took two months for the Huxley blather to repeat from The Washington Times. Must be the season for The Tree of Liberty soon……
Isn’t NSA deeper state than deep state CIA which is still deeper than FBI but above CDC and MM.
Did you learn the secret Deep State handshake? Got your invite to the Deep State, Deep Thoughts convention? Always held in San Francisco but I can’t tell you where.
Somehow, the Horst definition of Deep State differs from Eric’s imagining. I think you guys need to get on the same page. After all, you have your deep issues too as Kamala puts Trump into Deep Kimchi.