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23. Art Brennan

A neighbor of David Souter's, from Weare, NH

By Anne Flaherty / The Associated Press
May 13, 2008
Photo by Ken Williams and Monitor File
Former New Hampshire superior court judge Arthur Brennan testified before Congress yesterday about corruption in the Iraqi government.
The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees.

Former New Hampshire superior court judge Arthur Brennan, who briefly served in Baghdad as head of the department's Office of Accountability and Transparency last year, told Senate Democrats yesterday that the office was understaffed and its warnings and recommendations ignored. He was joined by James Mattil, who worked as chief of staff.

Brennan, of Weare, also alleges the State Department prevented a congressional staffer visiting Baghdad from talking with staffers by insisting they were too busy. In reality, Brennan said, the staffers were watching movies at the embassy and on their computers. The staffers' workload had been cut dramatically because of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's "evisceration" of Iraq's top anti-corruption office, he said.

The State Department's policies "not only contradicted the anti-corruption mission but indirectly contributed to and has allowed corruption to fester at the highest levels of the Iraqi government," Brennan told the Senate Democratic Policy Committee.

http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/former-state-judge-tells-of-corruption-in-iraqs-government?page=full