A news report found that the staff of the US' inspector general for Afghanistan will be unable to visit sites in 80% of the country in 2014, so that monitoring of billions of dollars' worth of US-funded reconstruction projects will be delegated to private contractors. A US Marine reservist facing a military inquiry into his use of an unclassified email account to send an urgent warning about an Afghan security risk has received bipartisan support. His email warned about an Afghan officer whose subordinate shot and killed three Marines just days later.
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