US taxpayers fund warlords pretending to guard our troops in Afghanistan

• 10/7, BBC: "Security contractors in Afghanistan 'fund Taliban'- 90% paid for by US taxpayer
  

"Heavy US reliance on private security in Afghanistan has helped to line the pockets of the Taliban, a US Senate report says.

The study by the Senate Armed Services Committee says this is because

• contractors often fail to vet local recruits and end up hiring warlords.

The report demands "immediate and aggressive steps" to improve the vetting and oversight process.

• Some 26,000 private security personnel, mostly Afghans, operate in Afghanistan.
  

Nine out of 10 of them work for the US government."...