U.S. officials say Karzai aides are derailing corruption cases involving elite

[Jack Rabbit]

Source: Washington Post

Top officials in President Hamid Karzai's government have repeatedly derailed corruption investigations of politically connected Afghans, according to U.S. officials who have provided Afghanistan's authorities with wiretapping technology and other assistance in efforts to crack down on endemic graft.

In recent months, the U.S. officials said, Afghan prosecutors and investigators have been ordered to cross names off case files, prevent senior officials from being placed under arrest and disregard evidence against executives of a major financial firm suspected of helping the nation's elite move millions of dollars overseas.

As a result, U.S. advisers sent to Kabul by the Justice Department, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration have come to see Afghanistan's corruption problem in increasingly stark terms.

"Above a certain level, people are being very well protected," said a senior U.S. official involved in the investigations.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/27/AR2010062703645.html?hpid=topnews

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Is Karzai Afghan for Diem?

[knowbody0]

1. well, duh.

[notesdev]

2. They learned from us well

[Angry Dragon]

3. They just learned well

They are following the American way and over there it is not working??
The elite here do not get punished so democracy is working. yea

[truedelphi]

4. This could just as easily be a group of American citizens complaining that BP officials

Are completely off the hook.

[glowing]

5. You mean kind of like the way Bush Co has been protected.. Hmm

Wonder where they get off thinking they are untouchable?

[Journeyman]

6. I certainly hope this doesn't come as a surprise . . .

if so, we're even more incompetent than previously suspected.

[SILVER__FOX52]

7. they're just following are lead.