let mel quickly on the proposal that stewart bohen had and then i'll answer your question. he answer is yes to the last part of your request e. i'll go into more detail. stewart did make that recommendation. again, i gefr that i don't do policy, i do process. and so i don't really think it's my position to recommend, and i haven't been asked, to recommend creating or not creating an entity such as stewart recommended. i will say this. this helps to answer your second question. i got enough authority, enough power, enough resources to do the job. i like temporary agencies. you know. there is a problem with creating another agency that will exist that never goes. i mean, i'm still waiting. i remember when i was working for sam nun. they finally abolished the tea tasting board, which had been established right after the revolution. okay? when you create an agency, it s never goes away. i don't know if you need it. special inspector generals are great. i got the '78 act. i got my name in the legislation. my enabling legislation gives me more authority than the average i.g. has.

let mel quickly on the proposal that stewart bohen had and then i'll answer your question. the answer is yes to the last part of your request e. i'll go into more detail. stewart did make that recommendation. again, i gefr that i don't do policy, i do process. and so i don't really think it's my position to recommend, and i haven't been asked, to recommend creating or not creating an entity such as stewart recommended. i will say this. this helps to answer your second question. i got enough authority, enough power, enough resources to do the job. i like temporary agencies. you know. there is a problem with creating another agency that will exist that never goes. i mean, i'm still waiting. i remember when i was working for sam nun. they finally abolished the tea tasting board, which had been established right after the revolution. okay? when you create an agency, it s never goes away. i don't know if you need it. special inspector generals are great. i got the '78 act. i got my name in the legislation. my enabling legislation gives me more authority than the average i.g. has.

stewart bohen on his exit was proposing called called the u.s. office of overcontingency operations. he had a grain of optimism that could perhaps be established. i don't see too much movement in that direction. but is something like that, whether in terms of a specific office or the capabilities that he was proposing, would that be helpful in terms of look at future? and a related question is you determined they were established because of the tremendous amount of resources that were being put into these twop countries. is the role of the special inspector generals simply a kind of surge capability, or do you bring something to -- does a special inspector general bring something greater to this effort than the igs of the particularly agencies of the gao? >> okay. let mel quickly on the proposal that stewart bohen had and then i'll answer your question. the answer is yes to the last part of your request e. i'll go into more detail. stewart did make that recommendation. again, i gefr that i don't do policy, i do process. and so i don't really thin

stewart bohen on his exit was proposing called called the u.s. office of overcontingency operations. he had a grain of optimism that could perhaps be established. i don't see too much movement in that direction. but is something like that, whether in terms of a specific office or the capabilities that

listening to you and having listened to stewart bohen, it's morel to have to reinvent the wheel so i just want to ask two questions that are reinventing the wheel because they apply to afghanistan and iraq. firstly on the side of laying conditions and stopping money flow if the afghan officials don't live up to them, afghan officials notably hamid karzai have used this as blackmail betting on the fact that the u.s. would be afraid to stop the money relest the government collapse. how is that going to change with a new government. and on the u.s. side, it has become clear despite hillary clinton's efforts some years ago to have civilian control of aid in combat zones that combat zones defeat u.s. civilians. officials don't get out of the embassy compounds. usaid doesn't get out of the compounds. they rely on contractors who don't get out of virginia. and so -- or don't get out of compounds. and it's the very rare case where u.s. officials are actually out there looking. so how in the world is it o anible under those conditions >> well, let me address with the ie of just saying no, whi