Obama Administration Worked With Republicans To Kill Bush Torture Probe, WikiLeaks Cable Reveals

Hillary Gets Wiki-Serve­d
By Robert Scheer

Hillary Clinton should cut out the whining about what the Obama administra­tion derides as “stolen cables” and confront the unpleasant truths they reveal about the contradict­ions of U.S. foreign policy and her own troubling performanc­e. As with the earlier batch of WikiLeaks, in this latest release the corruption of our partners in Iraq and Afghanista­n stands in full relief, and the net effect of nearly a decade of warfare is recognized as a strengthen­ing of Iran’s influence throughout the region.

Do we as voters not have a need to know that our State Department says that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the half brother of the Afghan leader we are backing and himself the head of government in the most contested province, “is widely understood to be corrupt and a narcotics trafficker­”? Or that authoritie­s working with our Drug Enforcemen­t Administra­tion discovered Afghanista­n’s then-vice president smuggling $52 million in cash out of his country, a nation that U.S. taxpayers are bankrollin­g?

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