John Sopko, Watchdog for U.S. Reconstruction Spending in Afghanistan, Battles Bureaucrats - Ernesto Londoño, Washington Post.
A year after John Sopko became the chief watchdog for U.S. reconstruction spending in Afghanistan, he has turned a failed agency into the bane of the existence of American bureaucrats scrambling to bring the war to a dignified end…
… As he sees it, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, has little time left to correct the course of a massive, wayward ship and to spotlight a flawed wartime appropriations system. To that end, he’s more than happy to name names, bruise egos, chase headlines and, well, go to war with much of Washington.
“I didn’t take this job to be liked at the State Department or USAID or the Department of Defense,” he said in an interview. “We’re the umpire. My job is to call strikes.” …