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K Street's favorite dictators
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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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