Allawi’s Billion Dollar Buddy | Talking Points Memo

How does Allawi pay for his lucrative contract with GOP lobbying powerhouse Barbour Griffith & Rogers? The obvious guess is that his old buddies at the CIA pay for him. But he may not need the agency’s cash. One member of his coterie is suspected of participating in what an Iraqi public-corruption judge calls “possibly the largest robbery in the world” — the theft of approximately $1 billion from the Iraqi treasury.


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