US Defense Department looks into alleged million dollar intel embezzlement

The US is investigating whether millions of dollars that were intended to be spent on collecting public information on developments in Afghanistan and Pakistan was actually being used to run a spy ring.

There are accusations that funds were siphoned off and used to organize lethal attacks.

The company running the program denies wrongdoing, but journalist Kevin Sites says it is no surprise if the project was abused.

“The details are quite complicated and the players involved are as colorful as the story itself. Michael Furlong, a former army officer, apparently was siphoning communication funds to fund his own private hit squad. That is what was being alleged at this point. But the actual funding of this was coming from an organization called Afpax, which was a partnership founded by Robert Young Pelton and former CNN news chief Easton Jordan,” Kevin Sites explains.

“They had gone to the military with the idea of providing them with certain information – basically that would be a website that provided open source information, photographs, details on the ground that the military could use. When you get in bed with the US military, almost anything can happen, and if you are supplying them with information, eventually that information is probably going to be used to kill people. That is the job of the US military,” he added.