"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." Washpost
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I don't see any Defense Department investigators mentioned in the story.
As I have hinted before, the problem lies in the sheer volume of money being spent in Afghanistan or about Afghanistan. The sums are so large that they constitute an opportunity as massive as the great Gold Strikes of the 19th Century.
That much money corrupts everything it touches. If these Afghans are skilled at aborting investigations of people so senior that they control the flow of money, do you think that they are alone in this effort?
Does this article mean that the media are going to begin to look at this seriously? I hope so. pl
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/27/AR2010062703645.html
