7. They take a: Ibid.
8. “the perceived likelihood”: Ibid.
9. They issue a: Ibid.
10. “series of in-country”: Ibid.
11. “Here are the”: “Demands for Better Government Must Be Heeded,” transparency.org, http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/results/.
12. The program included: Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, Outrage (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), p. 44.
13. “Corruption of the”: “Probe: $1.8B diverted to Hussein regime,” CNN.com, October 27, 2005, http://articles.cnn.com/2005-10-27/world/oil.food.report_1_oil-for-food-program-kickbacks- volcker?_s=PM:WORLD.
14. Paul Volcker estimated: Morris and McGann, Outrage, p. 59.
15. A year later: Ibid., p. 60.
16. “Un funding arrangements”: Ibid., p. 64.
17. “As far as I am”: Robert M. Appleton, “Chairman of the United Nations Procurement Task Force, to the United States House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs.”
18. “the most disappointing”: Ibid.
19. “The General Assembly’s”: “Internal Oversight and Procurement Controls and Processes Need Strengthening,” GAO.gov, April 27, 2006, http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-06-60IT.
20. “produce a document”: George Russell, “U.N. Judges Charge Ban Ki-moon with Power Grab, Distortions of Their Rulings,” FoxNews.com, November 11, 2011, http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/11/11/un-judges-charge-ban-ki-moon-with-power-grab- distortions-their-rulings/.
21. “despite a net”: Freedom House, “Freedom House Worst of the Worst,” http://www.freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/inline_images/Worst%20of%20the%20Worst %202010.pdf.
22. “His government… uses”: Ibid.
23. “President Lukashenka systematically”: Ibid.
24. “The State Peace”: Ibid.
25. “The junta drastically”: Ibid.
26. “has never”: Ibid.
27. “The Chinese government”: Ibid.
28. “Freedom of the”: Ibid.
29. “is home to”: Ibid.
30. “torture remains widespread”: Ibid.
31. “one-fifth of all”: Robert Zubrin,
32. “Longtime President”: Freedom House, “Freedom House Worst of the Worst,” http://www.freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/inline_images/Worst%20of%20the%20Worst %202010.pdf.
33. “of cannibalism, specifically,”: Joshua Norman, “The World’s Enduring Dictators: Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea,” CBS News, May 22, 2011, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20065072- 503543.html
34. “has never held”: “Freedom House Worst of the Worst.”
35. “intensified its suppression”: Ibid.
36. “corruption and abuses”: Ibid.
37. “Religion freedom is”: Ibid.
38. “protection of human”: Ibid.
39. “the political process”: Freedom House, “Freedom House Worst of the Worst.” freedomhouse.org, http://www.freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/inline_images/Worst%20of%20the%20Worst %202010.pdf.
40. “the police and”: Ibid.
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Dick Morris served as Bill Clinton’s political consultant for twenty years. A regular political commentator on Fox News, he is the author of ten *New York Times* bestsellers (all with Eileen McGann) and one
Eileen McGann is an attorney who, with her husband, Dick, writes columns for the *New York Post* and for their website, dickmorris.com. She has written extensively about the abuses of Congress and the need for reform.
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