Some have suggested that one of the justifications for a DOD task force like TFBSO is that it filled a niche supporting military commanders that the State Department and USAID did not.

Please provide a list of all TFBSO contracts and all available details on how all $638 million was disbursed.

In 2013 the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) issued a report saying the Afghanistan Government has levied nearly a billion dollars in business taxes on contractors supporting U.S. efforts in Afghanistan…

I am personally skeptical of the Department of Defense as a natural home for [economic development during a contingency operation].

We just have to stop repeating these lessons over and over again.

I think that is one of the problems when we look at $800 million of taxpayer dollars, and we cannot show any metrics or deliverables.

Again, as I understand your testimony, Mr. Sopko, even that individual cannot fully answer the question about the number because of the lack of recordkeeping.

That RAND report by its own admission is not an audit and does not fully account for how dollars were spent and also a cost-benefit analysis of those dollars.

Were any TFBSO projects in Afghanistan transitioned to USAID or any other U.S. government entity? If not, why not?

Which TFBSO-related questions posed to DOD by SIGAR has DOD not yet answered?

In your oral testimony, you testified that TFBSO did not account for costs 'on a project-by-project basis.'

This committee still does expect to be able to account to the people of this country for how this money was spent.

How do we make sure that you have what you need, Mr. Sopko, to properly conduct oversight and to make sure that the Inspector General's Office has the teeth that it needs to get us information that we need to ensure that we are doing our…

It strikes me that as you look at the GAO recommendations, the lessons learned from Iraq, none were taken into account as this transitioned to Afghanistan.

Do you agree it would have at least been helpful to say to SIGAR we think there is a huge problem with this number and we are going to have a financial analysis done on it?

I want to make sure that every member of our military or our civilian workforce understands that they can fully come forward with any issue that they have or concern about not only how taxpayer dollars are spent but also how the business…

I fully support what Senator McCaskill and Senator Shaheen have said, that our IGs deserve subpoena authority and full access to records, which they are not getting right now.

I just want to make sure that that is in the record, because having certainly had the opportunity to know General Odierno, we know he is one of the finest generals to serve our Nation.