Arnold Fields, watchdog over Afghan reconstruction, resigns amid congressional pressure
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Images from the Afghan war: Week of Jan. 5
Continued photo coverage from the front lines of the U.S., Afghan and NATO military effort in Afghanistan.
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By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 10, 2011; 6:44 PM
The head of the office charged with investigating corruption in the multibillion-dollar effort to rebuild Afghanistan has resigned, the White House said Monday, following congressional demands that the White House replace him.
Arnold Fields, a retired Marine Corps major general, was named special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction in 2008, when the office was first established along the lines of a similar effort that has uncovered hundreds of millions of dollars of waste and fraud in Iraq.
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Gallery
Continued photo coverage from the front lines of the U.S., Afghan and NATO military effort in Afghanistan.
» LAUNCH PHOTO GALLERY
By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 10, 2011; 6:44 PM
The head of the office charged with investigating corruption in the multibillion-dollar effort to rebuild Afghanistan has resigned, the White House said Monday, following congressional demands that the White House replace him.
Arnold Fields, a retired Marine Corps major general, was named special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction in 2008, when the office was first established along the lines of a similar effort that has uncovered hundreds of millions of dollars of waste and fraud in Iraq.
complete story..............
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...1/10/AR2011011005512.html?wpisrc=nl_natlalert
