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The New Yorker | The Voices of the Afghanistan Papers
In 2008, Congress, ostensibly concerned about wasting money in Afghanistan, created the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (sigar); five years ago, sigar began conducting interviews for several reports on what had gone wrong in the country. But many of the interviews were kept secret, until the Washington Post filed two federal lawsuits and gained access to hundreds of the interviews through the Freedom of Information Act.
Craig Whitlock, an investigative reporter who has been with the Post for over two decades, wrote the entire Afghanistan Papers series. We spoke by phone recently, in a conversation that has been edited for length and clarity [on] why the people who spoke to sigar didn’t blow the whistle publicly, and whether the war ever had a chance of succeeding. |
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