Friday, June 6, 2014

Typical Guam

The Washington Post reports via its Federal Eye blog about Assistant Secretary for Interior's Office of Insular Affairs, Anthony Babauta who resigned in January.
President Obama’s only Cabinet-level official from the U. S. territory of Guam steered federal contracts to friends, engaged in discrimination and sexual harassment, requested and received personal favors from subordinates and benefitted personally from taxpayer-funded trips, according to a watchdog report.
North American notions of right and wrong differ from those of Guam, which is more Asian than not. Several elected officials of the Territorial Government of Guam have been convicted of violations of the Federal Hobbs Act (taking bribes) and other felonies.

Expats joked being posted to Guam was a "rest cure" for burned out FBI agents. It was easy to build a case of official wrongdoing. Don't misunderstand, I liked Guam very much 30 years ago and still do, having visited a couple of months ago.