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Thursday, Apr 7, 2011

Popular revolutions swept away autocratic leaders in Tunisia and Egypt. The US and NATO launched airstrikes in Libya under a "responsibility to protect" civilians. But for decades the same dictators clung to power with US support. Despite the rhetoric about human rights from the State Department and the White House, a few blocks away on DC's K Street, many equally repressive regimes are lauded as partners and allies thanks to big bucks paid to powerful lobbying firms. But perhaps the best Cinderella tale on K Street is that of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, whose autocrat Teodoro Obiang recently dropped $1,000,000 to hire Clinton family friend Lanny Davis—and went from denounced dictator to a photo with President Obama himself.




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