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Stung by Senate criticism, auditor of Afghan spending sacks aides
WASHINGTON — The top auditor of U.S. contracting in Afghanistan announced Tuesday that he had fired two of his deputies in a shake-up aimed at improving his investigations of waste and corruption.
Arnold Fields, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, made the changes in his staff after coming under fire from four senators who wrote President Barack Obama late last year demanding his resignation. Fields said he is looking for replacements to run his audits and investigations divisions after concluding their work needed to be more in-depth.
Fields said the firings were partly in response to the congressional criticism. . "Certainly, I took seriously the concerns brought to my attention by the stakeholders on Capitol Hill," Fields said in an interview with McClatchy.
The senators have asserted that Fields' office has done a poor job of scrutinizing how $56 billion in reconstruction money is being spent in the war-torn nation.Read more:
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