ethnic, familial, that had kept them alive for decades. all of us walk in and start throwing billions of dollars of cash around. and so of course you're going to start seeing some predatory action. >> salam aleikhem. >> we were feeding into a clep tok rah cy instead of sitting back and thinking wait a minute, who is this guy's real chain of command? who does he really listen to? >> if you fight a war for 20 years, by definition it's not going in the right direction. >> in 2016 craig whitlock, a veteran staff reporter for the "washington post," received a tip about a little-known government report into the war in afghanistan known as the lessons learned project. led by special inspector general john sabko. >> it's fact versus fantasy. this is this problem that we identified early on.