host: john sopko? guest: i have not heard anything about that allegation.we do have allegations about the equipment are u.s. troops are doing, i would send that to the dod ig. i do reconstruction during the actual fighting, the dod and ig, that is their responsibility. i'm certain they will look into that if there's a concern about the weapons that are u.s. troops are using. i would be looking at the weapons that are supplied to the afghan military. host: mount vernon, new york, republican, jane. caller: good morning. this is my second call and i am nervous. moneyn't you stop the going in? the amount of money you cannot account for, subtract that from the amount that president karzai would be getting or whoever would be getting until they can account for the money themselves? you have people out there that are working and they're being paid, they should not be paid. just like in the united states. we don't get paid if we don't work. guest: good question. i cannot control the money. i'm inspector general ervin. i can expose problems. we have exposed problems

john sopko is our guest. he is the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction. were talking but you have your own acronym here in washington. that's important. so the price tag so far for rebuilding afghanistan, 87 billion. what's your role in overseeing that money? >> guest: well, sigar, special inspector general for afghan reconstruction was set up by congress to oversee and make certain it is spent well, we are a special inspector general. i got the job appointed by the president in july way are a full-service inspector general's office. but we do audit inspection and criminal investigations. we have people looking to see if the money is well spent. and if there is any theft, we will investigate and turn it over to justice department for prosecution. >> host: do you have every single dollar of that 87 billion accounted for? >> guest: know. i don't think anybody, and that's the problem. the hard area to work, that's the amount of money that's been appropriated so far over the last 10 years. if you include the 10 million or so that's in the president's budget,

host: john sopko? guest: i have not heard anything about that allegation. do have allegations about the equipment are u.s. troops are doing, i would send that to the dod ig. i do reconstruction during the actual fighting, the dod and ig, that is their responsibility. i'm certain they will look into that if there's a concern about the weapons that are u.s. troops are using. i would be looking at the weapons that are supplied to the afghan military. host: mount vernon, new york, republican, jane. caller: good morning. this is my second call and i am nervous. why can't you stop the money going in? the amount of money you cannot account for, subtract that from the amount that president karzai would be getting or whoever would be getting until they can account for the money themselves? you have people out there that are working and they're being paid, they should not be paid. just like in the united states. we don't get paid if we don't work. guest: good question. i cannot control the money. i'm inspector general ervin. i can expose problems. we have exposed pro

it is my pleasure today to be hosting john sopko who is the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction known by the acronym sigar. mr. sopko has been a state and federal prosecutor. he has been congressional counsel, senior federal government adviser. he has been the chief counsel for oversight and investigation for the house committee on energy and commerce and has also been on the chief oversight counsel for homeland security. and under then senator sam nunn, he was on the senate subcommittee for investigation staff. he has worked at commerce at the justice department, at the state and federal level and today he is the special inspector general for afghanistan's reconstruction we are now entering our 12th year in that conflict, and i wish that we could report that the reconstruction is complete. unfortunately what we do know is that compared to 10 years ago there has been a great deal of progress in afghanistan society and its quality of government but i think as we are all very well aware the reconstruction program has not always gone as expected. we have military uni

it is my pleasure today to the hosting of john sopko the special inspector general for afghan reconstruction. yes been a federal prosecutor. he has been congressional counsel. he has been the chief counsel for oversight and investigations. he has also been on the cheap oversight council. he was on the senate subcommittee for investigation staff. he has worked at the justice department, at the state and federal level. today he is the special intelligence -- inspector general for afghanistan. we're entering are to appear in that conflict. -- our 12th year in that conflict. i wish i could report that reconstruction is complete. what we do know is that compared to 10 years ago there has been a great deal of progress in afghanistan society. as we are very well aware comment the program has not always gone as desired and expected. we have military units continue to rotate into afghanistan. to rotate into afghanistan.

host: john sopko? guest: i have not heard anything about that allegation.we do have allegations about the equipment are u.s. troops are doing, i would send that to the dod ig. i do reconstruction during the actual fighting, the dod and ig, that is their responsibility. i'm certain they will look into that if there's a concern about the weapons that are u.s. troops are using. i would be looking at the weapons that are supplied to the afghan military. host: mount vernon, new york, republican, jane. caller: good morning. this is my second call and i am nervous. why can't you stop the money going in? the amount of money you cannot account for, subtract that from the amount that president karzai would be getting or whoever would be getting until they can account for the money themselves? you have people out there that are working and they're being paid, they should not be paid. just like in the united states. we don't get paid if we don't work. guest: good question. i cannot control the money. i'm inspector general ervin. i can expose problems. we have exposed p

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john sopko to answer them. after questions here, and that i will take to questions at a time. >> thank you for the talk. of those seven questions you asked, i think it would probably be difficult to get an affirmative response for any of those seven for most of the projects we do. however, the folks that implement these projects, they say there are intangible drilling off -- benefits that don't demonstrate metrics on the back end. i would ask first part, our other intangible benefits you can track and not have to tie everything with quantitative but if it's on the back end, even if their results based. the second part, ostensibly switching from counterinsurgency to security forces and how does that affect your inspection efforts? >> in your first question and in all of your talk you refer to programs, but never to plants. in one of the issues is how you make trade-offs and do you have a coherent way to move forward? i wonder why the focus on programs with no licking it plans when the afghan government estimates