Three months after a Congressional deadline—and more than six years after the war started—the White House has appointed an inspector general for Afghanistan. The Washington Post’s Karen DeYoung reports that, pending Senate confirmation, Maj. Gen. Arnold Fields were be in charge of rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in the Afghanistan reconstruction program.

Iraq has had its own special inspector general, Stuart Bowen, who has won praise by lawmakers critical of the war but was almost sacked by the President after the 2006 election. The Pentagon and State Dept. have opposed an Afghanistan inspector general, saying it overlaps with their current work.  Clearly, some people must think there could soon be too much oversight of what the U.S. is doing in Afghanistan.  Read DeYoung here. MB

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