Mattis wants new contract review board for Afghanistan

By Tony Bertuca / October 3, 2017 at 3:27 PM
Telling lawmakers he shares their concerns about corrupt and incompetent contracting in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday he wants to establish a new review board to prevent the waste, fraud and abuse documented by government audit agencies over the past 16 years of war. "We have made very clear that the contracting that's going on in Afghanistan must be focused on the combat capability that we are bringing there," he told the Senate Armed Services Committee during a...

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