Americas Misspent Anti-Terror Funds

Details: Published on Thursday, 09 June 2016 11:00; Written by editor

How U.S. security assistance ends up in the hands of undemocratic regimes.

Every year, the United States gives $17 billion to foreign countries for military units, weapons, police, and other forms of security.

Not all of these countries spend the money the way they should.

Yemen is one example—a country in which hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars have been squandered in failed attempts to work with an undemocratic regime to stamp out terrorism.

Learn about how security assistance from the United States risks being misused—and a useful tool that can help monitor it.

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