Shhh . . . There Is Corruption in Iraq

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Source: WP

Senior Iraqi cabinet members over a six-month period blocked investigations and prosecutions of corruption within their ministries valued at $35 million, using a Saddam Hussein-era law meant to shield officials from political abuses of the justice system, according to a recent memo by an official at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki reinstated the law, under which no governmental corruption case can be instituted against an Iraqi minister or former minister without the minister's permission. The ministers can, in turn, selectively immunize their subordinates, thus protecting them from being prosecuted for corruption.

As a result, more than 48 investigations or prosecutions initiated between September 2006 and February 2007 by Iraq's Commission on Public Integrity (CPI) were stopped, according to the March 11, 2007, memo prepared for the embassy's Anti-corruption Working Group.

It warns that the number 48 may be an understatement, since ministers asked to see if the immunity law may apply "simply hold on to the cases indefinitely thereby de facto blocking the trial."

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/24/AR2007062401301.html

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1. No shitte Sherlock! Corruption, corruption, corruption! So follow the money

...and it will always come back to DICK CHENEY!

[Nickster]

2. Wow, they picked up being Republicans real quick!

[underpants]

3. they aren't very good at accounting you know

Sorry but that excuse always was so batshitcrazy funny it needs to be repeated.

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Wow nice law! You can't be prosecuted unless YOU allow yourself to be prosecuted. I'll bet the Bush legal team wishes it had thought of that when they still had a rubberstamp Congress.