Ex-State officials allege corruption in Iraq »
Posted By not2needy 5 months ago in NewsThe Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees.
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not2needy5 months ago
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Arthur Brennan, who briefly served in Baghdad as head of the department's Office of Accountability and Transparency last year, and James Mattil, who worked as the chief of staff, told Senate Democrats on Monday that their office was understaffed and its warnings and recommendations ignored.
Brennan also alleges the State Department prevented a congressional staffer visiting Baghdad from talking with staffers by insisting they were too busy. In reality, Brennan said, the staffers were watching movies at the embassy and on their computers. The staffers' workload had been cut dramatically because of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's "evisceration" of Iraq's top anti-corruption office, he said.
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Goppy5 months ago
The 1st paragraph hit me right between the eyes!
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"The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees."
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There it is again ... '..kept secret potentially embarrassing information.."
Darn if that dont distill down the entire essence of the Bush 2 Administration.
They have doggedly pursued an ideeologically based tenure that equates to spending as much money as possible in Iraq, sending out operatives to gleefully throw greenbacks into Defense Contractors offices ... and EVERYTHING else ... its ... 'You dont need to know how badly we are screwing this pooch'.
The audacity of their disdain for open goverment can be defined by their efforts to make themselves completely unnaccountable for their dismantling the Constitution.
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Goppy5 months ago
From DAY 1 - this administration has pulled a blanket of secrecy over their administration that - to this day - DEFINES their style of leadership.
Why?
When my son was adamant about bein secretive - I knew he needed supervision because HE knew he was playin fast and loose with rules.
Its no different here. The Neo-Conservative philosophy that this administration has chosen to embrace is COMPLETELY at odds with the historical values of our nation.
They are RE-WRITING our national values ... and they KNOW they look bad ... and THATS why they are obsessed with secrecy.
THAT is the reason.
They want to clear out as much impediment to their craaazie Neo-Con infrastructure ... then it wont matter if they leave office as not bein popular. They dont care bout popularity.
THEY ONLY CARE BOUT SETTIN UP THE NEO-CON INFRASTRUCTURE INSIDE GOVERMENT!
They know they are lying and cheating to do it.
It dont matter to them!
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libsRfunny5 months ago
Iraq has it's own gov't not in violation of international treaties and laws -- unlike under Saddam. Not much we can do about it.
On the one hand, libs whine about Iraq, saying we have no business being there. Now you whine saying Bush isn't doing anything to stop corruption. Corruption is pretty much a way of life in some of those nations. Get over it.
Hell, no one seemed to mind Clinton's and Gore's blatant corruption. Now all of a sudden you libs are worried about Iraq. Hilarious! lol
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mesodude5 months ago
"Corruption is pretty much a way of life in some of those nations. Get over it."
--Urmm...But if memory serves me, it's cons who are the ones who're always barking defensively about how thoroughly life sucked under the corrupt Hussein regime. Now you're saying that after we've spent hundreds of billions of dollars, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people (including several thousand Americans) that we should just chill out accept that some places are just corrupt by nature? That just sounds kinda goofy to me. ;-(
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wtagg5 months ago
You are leaving out the conservatives that are whining about it. Please to not cherry-pick the whiners. I want to be included.
I think what is being complained about is instead of spending $500,000,000,000, 4000 lives, crippling our military, creating tens of thousands of casualties that will cripple our VA system, which was crippled to begin with, drive up oil prices due to the instability in the region, and overburdened our economy, we could have just bought the oil from Saddam. That way we could have bypassed all the added pork above. Had we not been there, Iraq would be basically in, at the worst possible scenario, an equal position to where it finds itself currently and most likely, probably would be better off.
Just purchasing the oil would have been conservative. All we have done is opened another door for al qaeda and hurt our country here and abroad.
Could you document Clinton and Gore's blatant and proven in a court of law corruption?
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hamy5 months ago
Once again, just saying "Clinton did it!" doesn't make it right. Clinton wasn't the most wonderful man in the world, but he knew how to lead.
I wish I could say that your blind following was "hilarious" but the destruction of our way of life isn't funny to me anymore.
Thanks for supporting a regime of terror and destroying the future of our children.
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rdy2rck5 months ago
Why does this not surprise me. With all the proclamations of us being there to help the Iraqi government stabilize their country all we are doing is letting a few hogs go to the trough.It doesn't seem we even want to make them take the chance of stability.
Another derned reason to let's GO HOME.
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donald515 months ago
....well Rummy never had the Pentagon's Inspector General on the deployment list for overseas and the Bush Justice Department has always stonewalled every case of reported contracter fraud and abuse out of both Iraq and Afghanistan. Women employees of the contractors raped without justice department care too. You are just not supposed to find fault with all those sole source, unaudited contracts the repugs wrote to make big profits!
Remember when Condi told the Congress she couldn't support the surge when one of her support requirements was to get more people in the Iraqi ministries to make sure our money was spent right?
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jordan115 months ago
Of course they ignored it. They ignored the warnings pre 9/11. They ignored those who said the evidence for war wasn't there. They ignored billions in cash gone missing. They ignored Blackwaters actions. They've ignored generals in the field. They have ignored virtually EVERY THING that has transpired. They have a choice. They're either stupid beyond belief, or they're complicit.
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Goppy5 months ago
Yes ... the article points out that the waste of money is awful.
The additional example of striving to keep all the malfeasance shrouded in secrecy is far more exemplative of the danger to the health of our society.
This is a crazy, ideologically driven administration.
They DONT have our interests in the forefront of their agenda.
What is in the forefront of their agenda is getting their Neo-Conservative aparatchicks deeper and deeper into the bowels of our national bureaucracy.
THATS why ROVE went on that rampage to ELIMINATE Attorneys General ... to ensconce pro-craazie Neo-Cons wherever he could.
This administration is unprecedented because NEO-CONSERVATISM is unprecedented.
Its a recent invention and this is the FIRST administration that was made up ENTIRELY of its adherents.
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Goppy5 months ago
I dont have an argument with that n2n.
Karl Rove is driven by ideological purity.
As the 'architect' who came up with the strategy of pandering strictly to the Christian Fundamentalist base in America, you have to wonder, ... who exactly was working for who?
How depraved does one have to be to 'as an atheist, embark on a cynical strategy of counting up the Christian Fundamentalists and going after them to achieve other goals.
It would be one thing if the administration actually had, as part of their desire to serve, a desire to promote 'Faith Based Initiatives'.
I would not have agreed with that ... but they would have been true to their word.
Instead, as disenchanted White House insider, David Kuo, pointed out in his book; 'Tempting Faith' - the White House openly ridiculed the Religious Right as 'nutcases'.
This administration is a MASSIVE FRAUD from beginning to end.
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ProudBlueTexan5 months ago
Send the URL of this story and thread to CNN with a comment about their duty as journalists in a democracy:
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God bless ya
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Endoscopy5 months ago
A couple of people say that something is bad. The State department refutes it, but of course the far left faithful have to say that all Republicans are liars and corrupt. The party of compassion and hate crime laws spew hate from the far left. Anything conservative is hateful and not worth discussing.
Just keep the blinders on as the country leaves you in the dust.
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