DesertFox
02-09-2008, 06:53 PM
One of Washington's most prominent conservative lawyers, sent to Iraq to help the fledgling democracy develop its legal and judicial institutions, has charged in a blistering memo to U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker that the State Department and Foreign Service have "brought to Iraq the worst of America — our bureaucrats" and become "an albatross around the neck of the Coalition command."
Manuel A. Miranda, a former counsel to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, spent the last year as a State Department contract employee at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. His official title was Senior Advisor for Legislative Framework in the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office.
In a ten-page memo obtained by FOX News, Miranda told Crocker the career diplomats tasked with helping the Iraqi government meet its legislative and institution-building benchmarks "are simply not up to the task," that due to a "unionized attitude" and "built-in attention deficit disorder" at the Foreign Service and State Department headquarters, "hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars are being wasted and poorly managed."
"Any American graduate school study group could do better," Miranda wrote.
More (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330117,00.html)
Manuel A. Miranda, a former counsel to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, spent the last year as a State Department contract employee at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. His official title was Senior Advisor for Legislative Framework in the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office.
In a ten-page memo obtained by FOX News, Miranda told Crocker the career diplomats tasked with helping the Iraqi government meet its legislative and institution-building benchmarks "are simply not up to the task," that due to a "unionized attitude" and "built-in attention deficit disorder" at the Foreign Service and State Department headquarters, "hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars are being wasted and poorly managed."
"Any American graduate school study group could do better," Miranda wrote.
More (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330117,00.html)