Former Head Of Iraqi Anti-Corruption Agency Now An Undocumented Immigrant
by tdaxp ~ May 13th, 2008
Disturbing news, shared on Google Reader by Nkyrindc:
Think Progress » U.S.-Backed Head Of Iraqi Anti-Corruption Agency Now A ‘Destitute’ Undocumented Immigrant In U.S.
After the 2003 Iraq invasion, Coalition Provisional Authority chief Paul Bremer created a major anti-corruption ministry in Iraq, the Public Integrity Commission (CPI). Last October, former CPI commissioner Judge Radhi al-Radhi, who was appointed by Bremer and whose work has been praised by top U.S. officials, told Congress about the “rampant” corruption in Iraqi ministries that had cost Iraq as much as $18 billion...
But today, Radhi is living as a undocumented immigrant in Virginia. In a Democratic Policy Committee hearing yesterday, former State Department official James Mattil told Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) that Radhi has no “official status” in the U.S. Currently, only a group of Quakers and Arthur Brennan, the former head of the department’s Office of Accountability and Transparency, are funding Radhi, he said:
The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State may two the two worst-run agencies in the federal government. When they work together, things get truly bad.
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May 18th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
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