Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday that “no $6 billion has been lost. It is accountable,” he said. The problem “is keeping up with the paperwork.” He said part of the problem is that U.S. agencies that oversee the contracts are understaffed.

The report covers the ﻿duration of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s tenure at the State Department, as well as the final months of the tenure of ﻿﻿﻿Condoleezza Rice, President George W. Bush’s last secretary of state.

McCaskill, who has said she would support Clinton if the former New York senator runs for president in 2016, wrote the State Department that the problems were “more than administrative.”

Two contracts worth a combined $152 million, she said, “were subject to fraudulent activity due to incomplete contract files.”

Kerry said that after he became secretary of state last year he hired an inspector general to conduct audits and provide oversight of the agency’s spending and operations.

He said there had not been an inspector general at the State Department for more than three years.

Kerry﻿ said he felt the need to re-establish the position because of what he had seen of U.S. aid in Afghanistan.

“I saw the contracting and recognized the corruption that existed in Afghanistan itself and other problems,” Kerry said.

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