More about the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations

A couple of months ago I wrote about this task force which was active in Afghanistan.  My article focused on a a $43,000,000 natural gas station. But that was only part of the $800,000,000 the task force spent. The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on the task force yesterday, but could find out very little. A couple of other weird expenditures:

• $6 million spent to bring nine blond goats from Italy and building a farm in an attempt to launch a thriving cashmere industry.
• Defense Department employees went to carpet trade shows in Europe and made jewelry-related trips to India?