Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After

Hours. Today I have an interview with John Sopco, the Special Inspector General for

Afghanistan Reconstruction, that's full of new information that's sure to outrage you

about the waste of our money in Afghanistan and what he calls the State Department's unprecedented

refusal to cooperate in his efforts to track it.

I've interviewed John Sopco numerous times while I worked for CBS News, as well as on my

independent program Full Measure, he is the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction,

and the investigations that he and his team do regarding the mis-spending of our tax

money in Afghanistan have proven thorough, disturbing, and sometimes even shocking. Equally

as disturbing is what he learns about our federal agencies and their lack of cooperation

in accounting for their actions and the spending and tracking of all the money. In the big

picture, I think it's yet another example of how our federal agencies have come to run

a muck, thumbing their nose at those who have the power to do oversight on our behalf,

such as the Special Inspector General in Congress. They do as they please, hiding public

documents that we have a right to see and know about, and often they do that with impunity.

This interview in particular is full of outrageous points of order. The news surrounds the Inspector

General's latest assessment of what's happening to our money in Afghanistan. Yes, we're still

sending all kinds of tax money to this country now retaken by the Islamic extremist Taliban,

with even fewer ways to account for it than before. And with our own federal agencies

appearing to cover up the information needed to do oversight. You won't want to miss this

interview. Here's John Sofco.

Well, the cigar is a Special Inspector General, braided by statute. And our job is to investigate

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