"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?"
"In your oral testimony, you testified that TFBSO did not account for costs 'on a project-by-project basis.'"
"Which TFBSO-related questions posed to DOD by SIGAR has DOD not yet answered?"
"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..."
"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?"