http://www.thinkbigusa.com/News/contractor-spending-in-afghanistan-includes-1-billion-wasted/ Filed under: Politics. An audit memorandum prepared by Senator Claire McCaskill's staff puts the amount of money spent on reconstruction and redevelopment contracts in Afghanistan. at $23 billion, with $1 billion of it waste. So, was $22 billion well spent? The funds have been spent on a variety of projects, including the construction of roads and the development of power generation utilities to a... Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:17:43 CST en