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Nov 17, 2009	Paying Off the Warlords: Anatomy of an Afghan Culture of Corruption QUOTE: Afghan political analysts observe that Ghazanfar and Zahid Walid are striking examples of the multimillion-dollar business conglomerates, financed by American as well as Afghan tax dollars and connected to powerful political figures, that have... emerged as part of a pervasive culture of corruption here.	TomDispatch
Oct 11, 2009	On Cluttered Ballots of India, Families Proliferate QUOTE: political dynasties, large and small, have proliferated so rapidly [in India] that many analysts believe nepotism is corroding the political system.	New York Times
Oct 03, 2009	Questions on Executions Mount in India QUOTE: The sensational case [of Indian police killing an innocent woman] has fed a heated national debate about the longstanding Indian police practice of killing suspects.	New York Times
Oct 01, 2009	Senator’s Aid After Affair Raises Flags Over Ethics QUOTE: Several experts say those activities [of Senator John Ensign] may have violated an ethics law that bars senior aides from lobbying the Senate for a year after leaving their posts.	New York Times
Sep 24, 2009	F.D.A. Reveals It Fell to a Push by Lawmakers QUOTE: The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that four New Jersey congressmen and its own former commissioner unduly influenced the process that led to its decision last year to approve a patch for injured knees, an approval it is now revisiting.	New York Times
Sep 20, 2009	Diplomatic Immunity Leaves Abused Workers in Shadows QUOTE: A July 2008 Government Accountability Office report identified 42 cases of abuse by diplomats over an eight-year period but emphasized that the actual number was probably higher.	Washington Post
Sep 19, 2009	Some Chinese parents say their babies were stolen for adoption QUOTE: [in China] some parents are beginning to come forward to tell harrowing stories of babies who were taken away by coercion, fraud or kidnapping -- sometimes by government officials who covered their tracks by pretending that the babies had been abandoned.	Los Angeles Times
Sep 16, 2009	A third of Karzai votes may be fraudulent, EU official says: The EU's monitor for Afghanistan election suggests that 1.1 million of the incumbent president's votes must be investigated. QUOTE: The Afghan elections... received another body blow Wednesday when the head of the European Union's election-monitoring commission said that as many as 1.1 million votes cast in the vote were "suspect."	Christian Science Monitor
Sep 13, 2009	In Iraq's prisons, a culture of abuse QUOTE: ...Iraq's national detention system as a whole has been harshly criticized by Western human rights organizations.	Christian Science Monitor
Sep 03, 2009	Son of Late Gabon Leader Declared Winner in Vote QUOTE: The Bongo family extended its 41-year reign over this resource-rich country on Thursday as the son of Africa’s longest-serving ruler was declared the winner of a disputed presidential election.	New York Times
Sep 02, 2009	Report Details How Madoff’s Web Ensnared S.E.C. QUOTE: “despite numerous credible and detailed complaints,” the S.E.C. never took “the necessary, but basic, steps to determine if [Bernard L.] Madoff was operating a Ponzi scheme.”	New York Times
Aug 25, 2009	Probe: New Orleans flood control pumps not reliable QUOTE: Huge flood-control pumps installed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina don't protect the city adequately and the Army Corps of Engineers could have saved $430 million in replacement costs by buying proven equipment, a federal investigation finds.	USA TODAY
Aug 24, 2009	Holder to Appoint Prosecutor to Investigate CIA Terror Interrogations QUOTE: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes when they allegedly threatened terrorism suspects...	Washington Post
Aug 24, 2009	Karzai Opponent Alleges 'Widespread' Voter Fraud QUOTE: The allegations of fraud, combined with the slow pace of vote tabulation and the cumbersome process for investigating complaints, are raising political tensions as the nation [Afghanistan] waits to see whether its second presidential election will produce a result that Afghans can trust.	Washington Post
Aug 24, 2009	Report Cites Abuse at State Juvenile Prison Centers QUOTE: Children at four juvenile detention centers in New York were so severely abused by workers that it constituted a violation of their constitutional rights, according to a report by the United States Department of Justice made public on Monday.	New York Times
Aug 22, 2009	Ridge's Telling Tale, or Just Another Tell-All? QUOTE: There is something about the Beltway culture that seems to discourage protest resignations. Instead, the well-worn path is to collect your grievances, find a publisher, hit the talk-show circuit and recast yourself as a painfully honest critic of the administration you once saluted.	Washington Post
Aug 21, 2009	VA Reports Detail Misconduct By IT Officials QUOTE: Two reports issued by the inspector general of the Department of Veterans Affairs point to a range of misconduct in the agency's IT department in recent years...	InformationWeek
Aug 20, 2009	CIA Hired Firm for Assassin Program: Blackwater Missions Against Al-Qaeda Never Began, Ex-Officials Say QUOTE: A secret CIA program to kill top al-Qaeda leaders with assassination teams was outsourced in 2004 to Blackwater USA...	Washington Post
Aug 20, 2009	A very British coup: The Turks and Caicos loses independence QUOTE: THE self-rule that the Turks and Caicos islands have enjoyed for 33 years was taken away on August 14th, when Britain removed their elected premier, cabinet and assembly, and suspended most of their constitution.	Economist
Aug 20, 2009	Tom Ridge kisses and tells on Bush’s ‘terror levels’ (The Vote Blog) QUOTE: [former head of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge] says two top Bush officials – Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft – pressured him to up the terror alert level before the 2004 election...	Christian Science Monitor
Aug 16, 2009	Doctored Data Cast Doubt on Argentina: Economists Dispute Inflation Numbers QUOTE: in a globalized world, where a pensioner in Italy might be as likely to invest in Argentina as in Fiat, the suspected modifications [of socioeconomic data by the Argentinian agency National Institute of Statistics] are being felt far beyond this city [Buenos Aires].	Washington Post
Aug 12, 2009	DynCorp Billed U.S. $50 Million Beyond Costs in Defense Contract QUOTE: A Defense Department auditor testified Tuesday that DynCorp International billed the government $50 million more than the amount specified in a contract to provide dining facilities and living quarters for military personnel in Kuwait.	Washington Post
Aug 12, 2009	A Window Into C.I.A.’s Embrace of Secret Jails ("Interrogation Inc. part 2 of 2) QUOTE: The existence of the network of prisons to detain and interrogate senior operatives of Al Qaeda has long been known, but details about them have been a closely guarded secret... [The former European supply chief for the C.I.A. Kyle D. Foggo] Mr. Foggo acknowledged a role, which has never been previously reported.	New York Times
Aug 11, 2009	Transcripts, E-Mails Detail Campaign to Oust U.S. Attorney QUOTE: The dismissal of New Mexico U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias in December 2006 followed extensive communication among lawyers and political aides in the White House who hashed over complaints about his work on public corruption cases against Democrats, according to newly released e-mails and transcripts of closed-door House testimony by former Bush counsel Harriet Miers and political chief Karl Rove.	Washington Post
Aug 11, 2009	The Sheik Down: How the Pentagon bought stability in Iraq by funneling billions of taxpayer dollars to the country's next generation of strongmen. QUOTE: Eifan is a beneficiary of what some American personnel call the "make-a-sheikh" program, a semiofficial, little discussed policy that since late 2006 has bankrolled Sunni sheikhs who are, in theory, committed to defending American interests in Iraq... It was also a reinstitution of a strategy started by Saddam Hussein, who picked out tribal leaders he could manipulate through patronage schemes.	Mother Jones
Aug 11, 2009	How America Is Funding Corruption in Pakistan: Graft is on the rise in Islamabad, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. QUOTE: For the last eight years, U.S. taxpayers' money has funded hardly any bona fide counterterrorism successes, but quite a bit of corruption in the Pakistani Army and intelligence services.
Aug 10, 2009	Mexico’s Drug Traffickers Continue Trade in Prison (War Without Borders) QUOTE: Mexico’s prisons, as described by inmates and insiders and viewed during several visits, are places where drug traffickers find a new base of operations for their criminal empires, recruit underlings, and bribe their way out for the right price.	New York Times
Aug 07, 2009	A $191 Million Question: How a relationship between an Army official and a private contractor led to allegations of collusion and impropriety QUOTE: Reforms a decade ago, intended to make the system [procurement system] more efficient and entrepreneurial, had unintended consequences: insufficient oversight, conflicts of interest, unprecedented outsourcing and an endlessly revolving door that leads government officials into the offices of contractors.	Washington Post
Aug 07, 2009	Corrupt Democracy in India QUOTE: new reports documenting the pervasive abuses committed by the Indian police are providing firsthand evidence not only of warrantless arrests... but also the complicity of parties and political leaders who have turned police and paramilitary forces in a number of [Indian] states into bodyguard agencies and private armies.	Nation
Aug 03, 2009	Obama Administration Weighs in on State Secrets, Raising Concern on the Left (Sidebar) QUOTE: A Supreme Court filing from the Obama administration last month has set off alarm bells on the left. The filing was a friend-of-the-court brief, and it mostly dealt with an excruciatingly technical question about the attorney-client privilege.But its last five pages were about the state secrets privilege, which was not at issue in the case.	New York Times
Jul 31, 2009	Ethics and Appropriations Make Strange Bedfellows QUOTE: Members of the House ethics committee, who are investigating a pattern of lawmakers steering federal funds to generous defense contractors, have just had their own pet military projects approved by the same committee whose activities they are probing.	Washington Post
Jul 31, 2009	Federal Agencies Diverted Earmark Money QUOTE: Thirteen federal agencies took nearly half a billion dollars off the top of Congressional earmarks for administrative expenses in 2008, nearly 3 percent of the total amount that members of Congress had directed to pet projects in federal spending bills.	New York Times
Jul 30, 2009	British Foreign Secretary: Clinton threatened to cut-off intelligence-sharing if torture evidence is disclosed QUOTE: both the Bush and Obama administrations had threatened to cut off intelligence-sharing with Britain if those facts (of the possible torture of former Guantanamo inmate Binyam Mohamed) were disclosed, even as part of a court proceeding.	Salon
Jul 29, 2009	Congress: File Sharing Leaks Sensitive Government Data QUOTE: Sensitive files including Secret Service safehouse locations, military rosters, and IRS tax returns can still be found on file-sharing networks...	CBS News
Jul 29, 2009	Immigration detention centers failed to meet standards, report says QUOTE: The federal government routinely failed to follow its own standards regulating immigration detention centers across the country...	Los Angeles Times
Jul 27, 2009	Infectious Diseases Study Site Questioned: Tornado Alley May Not Be Safe, GAO Says QUOTE: The Department of Homeland Security relied on a rushed, flawed study to justify its decision to locate a $700 million research facility for highly infectious pathogens in a tornado-prone section of Kansas, according to a government report.	Washington Post
Jul 26, 2009	In New Jersey, Ideal Conditions for Corruption QUOTE: As 44 people walked before cameras last week, their hands in cuffs, after they were arrested in the state’s biggest corruption scandal in years — but not, to be sure, that many years — even their most scandal-fatigued constituents, from the gritty precincts of Journal Square in Jersey City to the glittering new condominiums on the Hudson in Hoboken, began to wonder: Why is New Jersey so unshakably corrupt?	New York Times
Jul 26, 2009	Reviews prompt suspension of Iraqi jobs program QUOTE: The top U.S. aid agency has suspended a $644 million Iraq jobs program after two outside reviews raised concerns about misspending, including an inspector general's audit that found evidence of phantom jobs and money siphoned to insurgents.	USA TODAY
Jul 23, 2009	2 N.J. Mayors Arrested in Broad Inquiry on Corruption QUOTE: The mayors of Hoboken and Secaucus, two state assemblymen, five rabbis and dozens of others were rounded up early Thursday as the F.B.I. swept across New Jersey and Brooklyn as part of a two-year corruption and international money-laundering investigation...	New York Times
Jul 23, 2009	EFF's new lawsuit, and how the NSA is into social networking QUOTE: The government could be building a giant map of social networks... in order to look for communication patterns.	Ars Technica
Jul 22, 2009	Rights Group Accuses Saudi Arabia of ‘Gross’ Abuses QUOTE: The human rights group Amnesty International accused Saudi Arabia on Wednesday of using its campaign against terrorism as a facade for “a sustained assault on human rights...”	New York Times
Jul 22, 2009	White House declines to disclose visits by health industry executives QUOTE: Invoking an argument used by President George W. Bush, the Obama administration has turned down a request from a watchdog group for a list of health industry executives who have visited the White House...	Los Angeles Times
Jul 21, 2009	CIA Committed Fraud, Judge Writes in Ruling: 5 Involved in Suit Could Face Sanctions QUOTE: A federal judge has ruled that government officials committed fraud while defending a lawsuit brought by a former DEA agent who accused a CIA operative of illegally bugging his home.	Washington Post
Jul 21, 2009	Report Says Immigration Agents Broke Laws and Agency Rules in Home Raids QUOTE: Armed federal immigration agents have illegally pushed and shoved their way into homes in New York and New Jersey in hundreds of predawn raids that violated their own agency rules as well as the Constitution, according to a study...	New York Times
Jul 20, 2009	In Guatemala, Chasing Away the Ghost of Alvarado QUOTE: the nation has begun to confront the benighted lawlessness that plagues not only Guatemala but most of the rest of Central America too.	Time Magazine
Jul 20, 2009	U.S. Withheld Data on Risks of Distracted Driving (Driven to Distraction) QUOTE: the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, decided not to make public hundreds of pages of research and warnings about the use of phones by drivers — in part, officials say, because of concerns about angering Congress.	New York Times
Jul 17, 2009	Who is the CIA allowed to kill? Cheney's secret assassination program may be terminated, but the U.S. is already carrying out "targeted killings" QUOTE: The United States has had plenty of legal latitude to carry out targeted killings during the so-called war on terror -- and has been exercising that option vigorously for the past eight years.	Salon
Jul 16, 2009	Chechen Rights Activist Is Slain: U.S. Urges Russia to Bring Estemirova's Killers to Justice QUOTE: Chechnya's most outspoken human rights activist was found shot to death hours after being kidnapped Wednesday, provoking international outrage and calls for renewed scrutiny of Russia's violent policies in the Caucasus.	Washington Post
Jul 16, 2009	On Speedboats, Legal Again, Albania’s Illicit Sex Trade Could Flare QUOTE: the Albanian government three years ago barred all Albanian citizens from using speedboats, the favored transportation used by traffickers to get people out of the country. But the ban prompted loud protests from fishermen and people in the tourism industry, and in May it was reversed. Law enforcement and human rights officials are concerned that as a result, human trafficking may explode anew...	New York Times
Jul 16, 2009	Afghanistan: Oversight AWOL? QUOTE: Even as the Obama administration steps up spending in Afghanistan, it's shortchanging the government auditors responsible for ensuring that taxpayer dollars don't wind up in the pockets of swindlers and opportunists.	Mother Jones

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