Ex-State officials allege corruption in Iraq »
Posted By not2needy 1 year, 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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not2needy1 year, 5 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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Goppy1 year, 5 months ago
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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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jordan111 year, 5 months ago
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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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Goppy1 year, 5 months ago
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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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Goppy1 year, 5 months ago
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Dionys1 year, 5 months ago
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"I find it extremely telling that nearly EVERY SINGLE employee departing this administration spills their guts about how pathetic and incompetent - and what LIARS are the administration."
It's even more telling that they're doing it before the administration's even out of office.
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Tcaros1 year, 5 months ago
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War profiteering is not new to the Bush's. The treasury is being drained, the dollar devalued, gas prices high, and people are losing their homes. Yet, somehow people don't see Bush for what he really represents. It's like looking at a freight train and yelling at people to get off the tracks.
One only needs to examine the Bush family history of war profiteering. The fortunes were made while people died in concentration camps.
"Harriman Bank was the main Wall Street partner for several German companies and the varied U.S. financial interests of Fritz Thyssen. Thyssen had been an early financial backer of the Nazi party."
There are two easy ways to make big money; wars and by the setting things up to fail. How do you make money off failures? Look at recent scandals like Enron.
You can bet that Wall Street will make a fortune off the foreclosures, oil executives rich off the gas prices, and more money for payoffs to Fox and the media to keep quiet.
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HMMace1 year, 5 months ago
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MORE WASHINGTON AS USUALY--EVERY ONE IS SO CORUPPT--ANY ONE SQUEALS--THEY GET SQUEALED ON..
PELOSI CAN NOT GET RID OF JEFFERSON EITHER,,LEST HE GET HER..
ONLY ANSWER--
NEVER RE ELECT ANY POLITICIAN...
GET RID OF ALL "CAREER' POLS--THEY ARE THE REAL PROBLEM..
THEY GET SO RICH--THEY ONLY REACT TO THE RICH..FOR THE RICH..BECAUSE--THEY ARE RICH...
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Tcaros1 year, 5 months ago
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No, just get rid of Republicans. Pick them off one at a time during each re-election bid.
Also, we need to reign in our intelligence agencies. They are the arm of the Republicans and President.
We have a better chance with Democrats.
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Natureboy1 year, 5 months ago
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Have we forgotten that aggression against Iraq has been a bipartisan affair from the beginning? Have we forgotten that the Killer Klinton continued low scale warfare against Iraq, with sanctions that killed a half-million kids, throughout his administration? Have we forgotten all of the Dems in congress that gave Der Bush the green light to attack Iraq?
Wake the fsck up. This evil goes deeper than repug v dimocrat
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Tcaros1 year, 5 months ago
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Google Prescott Bush (Bush's grandfather). He once had his assets frozen for helping the Nazi's. He was proven to be a war profiteer in dealing with the money laundering through the infamous Dulles brothers, John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles (wall street bankers).
War profiteering is the way that people without imagination or American ingenuity become rich. They become rich off the death and trajedy of others.
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not2needy1 year, 5 months ago
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And the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Big Daddy Bush didn't have the smarts to put it into action, neither did Georgie Boy, but between the two of them, they figured out that they needed people like Cheney/Rove/Rummy and Condi (among others) to make it all come together for them.
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taciturnman1 year, 5 months ago
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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. http://www.youtube.com/user/KidsBedroomFurniture 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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