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Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury

Domestic
Friday, 03 September 2010 18:50
Vanity Fair’s October cover story says Sarah Palin has become increasingly secretive, walling herself off from old friends and associates, and attempting to enforce silence from those around her. Journalist Michael Gross writes “Palin’s on-the-record statements about herself amount to a litany of untruths and half-truths. With few exceptions…virtually no one who knows Palin well is willing to talk about her on the record, whether because they are loyal and want to protect her .., or because they expect her prominence to grow and intend to keep their options open, or because they fear she will exact revenge, as she has been known to do.” Gross writes: “It is an astonishing phenomenon,” adding: “She manages to be at once a closed book and a constant noisemaker.” Gross says the “Palin machine” is supported by organizations that do much of their business under the cover of pseudonyms and shell companies.
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Karzai urges Afghans not to panic as bank withdrawals accelerate

International
Friday, 03 September 2010 18:43
As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan's biggest bank Thursday, President Hamid Karzai told Afghans not to panic shortly after his brother, Mahmoud, a major shareholder in the beleaguered Kabul Bank, called for US intervention to head off a financial meltdown. The Treasury Department has sent a team of experts to help the Afghan Central Bank handle the crisis, but has so far ruled out any injection of U.S. money. The bank’s collapse would probably spread panic throughout the country's fledgling financial sector and wipe out nine years of effort by the US to establish a sound Afghan banking system. This would give a big boost to a mostly unregulated "hawala" system, a network of informal money exchanges that, in addition to serving ordinary customers, provides a secure channel through which drug traffickers and terrorists are believed to move their funds.
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Karzai calls aide's arrest reminiscent of Soviet times

International
Friday, 03 September 2010 18:30
Afghan President Hamid Karzai reacted angrily Thursday to the arrest of one of his closest aides this summer on corruption charges, saying the detention was conducted in a manner "exactly reminiscent of the Soviet presence in Afghanistan" and that the investigation was being illegally run by "foreign elements." Observers say Karzai’s remarks show he is unwilling to crack down on corruption within his administration. But Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who appeared with Karzai Thursday, merely said: "I think the key here is that the fight against corruption needs to be Afghan-led," adding: "This is a sovereign country." Karzai ordered the release of his aide, Mohammad Zia Salehi, shortly after his detention July 25 on charges of soliciting bribes. The closest Gates came to criticizing Karzai was saying Afghanistan's anti-corruption units need to "have credibility in the international community." A senior defense official said Gates was more forceful with Karzai in private.
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