content/blog/2015-06-09-the-stench-of-corruption/index.en.md


1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24

+++
title = "The stench of corruption"
lang = "en"

[taxonomies]
tags = ["politics", "corruption"]

[extra]
author = "harald"
+++

From an [article in the Intercept][1]:

> Senators, generals, ambassadors, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and
> the owner of The Atlantic were in the roster of powerful voices who wrote to a
> federal judge to ask him to go easy on former CIA director and retired general
> David Petraeus, who admitted to giving classified information to his mistress
> and biographer.

There is a stark and terrible contrast between how people already in power is
treated compared to the whistleblowers that does not have these powerful
connections. Read the [full article][1].

[1]: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/08/david-petraeus-powerful-friends-ask-judge-leniency/