WSJ story. Not a pretty sight.
More than $3b "openly flown out of Kabul International Airport in the past three years." Our gov suspects our aid is simply being diverted by Afghan officials. Duh! Who else is getting their hands so quickly on $3B USD during the surge?
My God, they take the stuff out in pallets! Since it's declared it's considered legal, but you have to wonder how the USG can't track, by frickin' serial number or something, its own aid money. Ditto for NATO's money, which spent about $14B in Afghanistan last year alone.
Of course, some of this is opium money, but you know the bulk is simply corruption.
This is how well we track our SysAdmin spending almost a decade in.