
Watchdog says State Department and USAID are withholding information on Afghanistan withdrawal
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The State Department and United States Agency for International Development have not provided information to a government watchdog about the fall of the Afghan government during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan last year, according to a letter from the watchdog's director.
The information has been required by multiple congressionally mandated audits, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) director John Sopko said in the letter to Secretary of State Tony Blinken and the USAID Administrator Samantha Power on Wednesday.
While these agencies have typically provided assistance to the watchdog, Sopko wrote in a letter reviewed by CNN that "agency officials now appear to have adopted a premeditated position of obstruction."

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