I was very skeptical seeing the title, as beyond generally having formed a good opinion on AER while on active duty, last Christmas we did some charity research for our big annual charity donation, and AER scored very highly as a charity, based on what percentage of charitable donations reach the intended beneficiary audiance (as opposed to being absorbed by the charity's infrastructure as salaries, and so forth). I mean, very high near the top of the chart. A lot these new charities set up to help soldiers once the war began did very poorly (IIRC, there was a thread on it here, particularly lambasting GEN (ret) Tommy Franks' endorsement of some of these dubious charities). I was surprised to see AER accused of malfeasance, glad to see it's pretty much bunk.