Arnold Fields, watchdog over Afghan reconstruction, resigns amid congressional pressure
US News • January 2011 • Views: 655
The head of the office charged with investigating corruption in the multibillion-dollar effort to rebuild Afghanistan has resigned, the White House said Monday, following congressional demands that the White House replace him.
Arnold Fields, a retired Marine Corps major general, was named special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction in 2008, when the office was first established along the lines of a similar effort that has uncovered billions of dollars of waste and fraud in Iraq.