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White House Mulls Grim Picture of 'Deteriorating Stalemate' in Afghanistan
By David Wood - Politics DailyThe assessments now pouring into the White House from Afghanistan run the gamut from discouraging to awful, as the Obama administration finishes up its long-awaited December review of the war strategy the president announced a year ago. In many ways, the cold facts charting the grim course of the war belie the upbeat views that the perpetually confident Gen. David Petraeus, the war's top commander, has expressed in public. President Obama didn't get much of a first-hand look at the war during his brief stopover at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan Friday. He briefly conferred with his top ...
WikiLeaks Documents: Corruption Rampant Among Afghan Officials
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyCorruption is the order of the day at all levels of Afghanistan's nascent government, according to U.S. diplomatic cables released in the latest WikiLeaks document dump. The New York Times studied hundreds of the cables and concluded that Afghanistan is a country "where bribery, extortion and embezzlement are the norm and the honest man is a distinct outlier." In fact, the Times found just one reportedly honest man, Agriculture Minister Asif Rahimi -- the only member of President Hamid Karzai's cabinet NOT accused of bribery of some form or another. A November 2009 cable named the acting ...
$100K Down the Toilet: Scandal Rocks DC Suburb
By Allan Lengel - AOL News
(Nov. 21) -- The former school superintendent is behind bars. County Executive Jack Johnson and his wife are whisked away in handcuffs by FBI agents, after authorities say she flushed evidence in the form of a $100,000 check down the toilet. And a few days later, three county cops are indicted in an FBI probe linked to the county executive -- a probe that has all the markings of a much bigger scandal to come. This is no obscure county in the middle of Nowheresville, U.S.A. It's Prince George's County, 498 square miles with more than 800,000 residents, long considered one of the most affluent ...
Forget the Midterms, American Politics as Usual Continue in Kyrgyzstan
By Paul Wachter - AOL NewsOPINION (Nov. 2) -- Though the midterm elections will be the talk of the day, for a more revealing look at modern American political policy you should check out this fascinating and disturbing report on Kyrgyzstan from The Washington Post. The report is really about a shadowy U.S. businessman, Douglas Edelman, operating in the Central Asian republic. Edelman opened a hamburger joint in the capital of Bishkek, but he took full advantage of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, and now "the 58-year-old Californian, along with a young Kyrgyz partner, controls a multinational jet fuel business that ...
China's Internet Imperils Corrupt Officials, but Not Regime
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (Oct. 28) -- The Chinese Internet has been abuzz over a hit-and-run incident involving the young son of a high-level security official in Hebei Province, outside Beijing. The episode shows how quickly outrage over abuses by privileged Chinese officials can come to a boil, as well as the power of Internet-fueled popular pressure in today's China. Still, many experts caution that while the Internet has become an outlet for anger against local officials, it is not a significant threat to the Chinese Communist Party's grip on power. What sparked the uproar was not only the ...
Index Shows Perception of US Corruption Growing
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News
(Oct. 26) -- Is corruption getting worse in the United States? That may seem the takeaway from this year's Corruption Perceptions Index from Berlin-based Transparency International, which saw the U.S. 2010 ranking slip to 22nd out of 178 nations from 19th last year -- the first time the United States has missed inclusion in the top 20 least-corrupt countries since the index was launched 15 years ago. Rising past the U.S. over the year were the tiny Caribbean island nation of Barbados (now 17th), the Persian Gulf emirate Qatar (19th) and Chile (21st). New Zealand, Denmark and Singapore -- ...
New Jersey Politician Caught on Tape Taking $10,000 From Supposed Developer
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyIn what could be a scene out of "The Sopranos," a New Jersey politician was caught on undercover video accepting an envelope stuffed with $10,000 cash from a man he promised to help acquire environmental permits for a coastal building development. Daniel Van Pelt was a Republican state assemblyman when he took the money from a dinner companion at an Atlantic City steakhouse last summer, ABC News reported Tuesday. The supposed developer was actually an FBI informant. Van Pelt was arrested July 23, 2009 as part of Operation Bid Rig, a sweeping public corruption sting in New Jersey. He ...
Corruption Trial Begins on Spain's Classy Costa del Sol
By Dana Kennedy - AOL News
(Sept. 30) -- Until this week, when 300 journalists arrived to cover Spain's biggest-ever municipal corruption trial, the coastal resort of Marbella was known mostly as a glamorous getaway for wealthy celebrities and a second home for thousands of British citizens. Now it's main claim to fame is what prosecutors say was a complex, multimillion-dollar property scam that began around 1991 and flourished during the now-dead Costa del Sol real estate boom. They allege that top city officials took bribes in exchange for granting often illegal building permits, netting the purported mastermind ...
Calif. Town Cheers Arrests in Corruption Scandal
By Lisa Flam - AOL News
(Sept. 22) -- Residents of the small, blue-collar city of Bell, Calif., have been outraged for months over reports that their leaders were among the highest-paid municipal workers in the country. Now they're cheering the news that eight current and former city officials have been arrested, charged with misappropriating more than $5.5 million in a corruption scandal. Many angry about the large salaries quickly spread word of the arrests through phone calls and sidewalk chats Tuesday, while others gathered at City Hall to celebrate with applause, cheers and laughter, according to The Los ...
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