Part 3/14:
Examples of Mismanagement and Waste
The briefing highlights several egregious instances where U.S. taxpayer dollars have been misused or squandered. A particularly illustrative case is the $335 million spent on a diesel power plant outside Kabul, Afghanistan. The plant, designed to provide critical electricity, operated at only 2% capacity due to the high cost of imported diesel fuel—money effectively wasted due to oversight failures.