Report: US agencies don't track own spending in Afghanistan

A new government report says the US agencies spending the most in Afghanistan cannot easily show where their money goes. The special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction also found federal agencies still are not tracking their contracts in a shared database.

The lack of coordination and agency reporting on US spending led the watchdog office to develop its own list of contractors tapped for Afghanistan work. Nearly 7,000 contractors received almost $18 billion between 2007 and 2009 from the Defense Department, State Department and the US Agency for International Development. (AP)