In a bombshell segment featured on The Shawn Ryan Show, a podcast hosted by a former U.S. Navy SEAL and CIA contractor, Sarah Adams, who worked with the CIA as a targeter, revealed how he Department of Defense (DoD) wasted $60 million to teach Afghan women farming, despite the Taliban banning women from leaving home.
For context, The Shawn Ryan Show is a popular podcast that often covers military and geopolitical topics, featuring insiders critical of U.S. policy. Ryan has interviewed prominent conservative figures such as Vivek Ramaswamy and has frequently criticised the massive waste in U.S. foreign policy.
Describing the vast problem, Adams explained how USAID wasted millions on impossible projects. She said, “USAID was sending money to Afghanistan. They paid $60 million to teach Afghan women farming. The Taliban don’t even allow Afghan women to leave their homes. That was the Department of Defense that did the $60 million. That wasn’t even USAID, and their operation sent them home.”
Continuing, the former CIA targeter explained how the DOD funded the Taliban in a March 21, 2025, interview. She added, “So, the Department of Defense is also giving the Taliban money that nobody discussed, but like he said, last year, they said they gave 60 million for women’s education when women can’t go to school. They gave 11 million for the Taliban to register their broken arms.”
Adding to that point, Sarah Adams explained that USAID was just the tip of the corrupt iceberg. She stated, “So we don’t just have a problem with USAID. We don’t just have a problem with the State Department. We have a problem with the money in the Department of Defense, money that the CIA is getting into the Taliban. We have to be honest about all these pockets of money, because you can’t stop them if you don’t discuss all of them…this has to be an act of Congress.”
Building upon her argument, she advocated for new laws to be enacted. She said, “This has to be no tax dollars for terrorist acts, which I once again called on His Excellency Speaker Mike Johnson, to put it up for a vote. Let members vote on it. This needs to stop.”
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Describing the consequences of this corruption, Adams explained how this money is laundered to anti-American terror cells. She added, “Okay, now, when we take it a step further, like I told you, some of the humanitarian dollars goes to these foreign fighters, but the counterterrorism dollars come in as us cash, and they go all over the place, and we’ve discussed it before, but they go into a number of these plots.”
Concluding her argument, she drew a chilling conclusion. Adams said, “I mean, it’s insane that we’re funding these incidents that are going to kill Americans, because think of how that’s going to come back, right? We have some Americans who have died. Let’s say Mogadishu. We have a bombing go off in Virginia, and then when you track the money down. The money came from the U.S. government.”
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