Oh, fiddle. I wonder if anyone checked the petty cash drawer.

"The Department of Defense has spent $66 billion since 2002 rebuilding Afghanistan. But amazingly, it can't account for $45 billion of that money. That's billion with a B.

The auditing office in charge of overseeing the reconstruction of Afghanistan has asked the Pentagon for a full account of where those funds have been spent. Twice. But the Pentagon told the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) that doing so simply wasn't feasible. They may as well have just returned the request with a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Matthew Gault over at the blog War is Boring reports that this lack of accountability wasn't even illegal. Keeping tabs on where that much money was flowing was simply too time consuming and deemed too burdensome. Which means we'll probably never have a full accounting of eight years worth of spending in Afghanistan.

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With April 15th just around the corner, I'd love to see some private citizen who's being audited by the IRS respond with simply ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. " [I bet Hillary could do it].

http://factually.gizmodo.com/the-pentago...in-a-1694873401

TM, I am just so happy you derived this important information from out of that article: "Never saw this guy before ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ cute!" (J/K)

"Oh, well, what's $45 billion?"

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You definitely have a point. Might as well get a new emoticon out of the deal.