BAGHDAD -- The government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is systematically dismissing oversight officials who were installed to fight corrupti...
AP | BRIAN MURPHY and PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — In the flatlands north of Baghdad sits a prison with no prisoners. It holds something else: a chronicle of U.S. government waste, misg...
Sen. Byron Dorgan | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
Earlier this month, former State Department officials in Iraq testified that the State Department turns a blind eye to corruption in the Iraq government, even when that corruption involves American tax dollars.
Sen. Byron Dorgan | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
Billions of U.S. tax dollars, as well as guns, ammunition, medical supplies and other equipment are siphoned off and diverted to the insurgents and militias who are killing American soldiers.
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 10.17.2007 | Politics
When the State Department, the Justice Department, and the executive branch decide that they're not answerable to Congress, and the American people, there is nothing left but the illusion of a representative government.
Gareth Porter | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics
The problem is that the occupation of a country by a foreign army is in its essence a system of lawlessness that corrupts not only the indigenous elite but the U.S. officials managing the country.
The Nation | David Corn | Posted 09.07.2007 | Home
With Congress and the White House engaging in yet another round of debate on the Iraq War, a former Iraqi judge who was--and who still may be--the chi...
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
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Last week, Black Friday heralded the unofficial kickoff of the 2008 winter holiday...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday that Robert Gates would remain as...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
NEW YORK — Rush Limbaugh has seldom been a fan of...
Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
CHICAGO — Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes...
Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
NY Times | JAMES GLANZ and RIYADH MOHAMMED | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics