US Foreign Aid Head Quits Over Escort Service Scandal
Published by Staff April 28th, 2007 in World.
The U.S. State Department has announced the resignation of Randall Tobias as the head of two foreign aid programs.
The department cited “personal reasons” for the decision, but U.S. news reports say Tobias abruptly resigned after his name was connected to an escort service that is under federal investigation.
Tobias served as director of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and as director of U.S. foreign assistance.
On Thursday, Tobias told reporters from the U.S. television network ABC that he had been a customer of a Washington-based escort service whose owner has been charged with running a prostitution business.
Rice appointed Tobias to the two posts in 2006. Previously, he was the top advisor for the government’s HIV/AIDS policies.
Source: VOA
It’s ok to invade some country and kill thousands, but heaven forbid someone pays for a piece of p***y.
What a stupid world we live in.
p***y should be free…thats the main idea
Hey, Bob:
Wonderful point. Nothing like the hypocrisy of the US govnt. or media: ream `em out if they even appear to be human. Form is infinitely more important than substance in the USA. Bush can rape Uncle Sam, and gets away with it every day….No Problem.
Like Zappa said:”Scientists tell us the most copious element in the universe is Hydrogen; they’re wrong: It is stupidity”.
One is “lawful”, the other is not.
Yes, odd as it may seem, it is “lawful” for the US government to fabricate imaginary threats and based on these fabrications mass murder hundreds of thousands of innocents in Iraq and directly cause the death of thousands and injuries of tens of thousands of Americans, as long as their fabrications were “plausible” enough that others believed them.
What’s stupid is that the sheeple don’t really care. There isn’t even a serious impeachment effort underway. This, on a related topic, brings up the impeachment of Clinton, who was impeached about - guess what - fibbing about having “sexual relations” with a more-than-willing young woman.
So the lesson is: sex with willing participants, impeachable; mass murder, untouchable.
Tobias made his money as Eli Lilly CEO when their top seller Prozac was going strong.My issue is he was an unqualified hack for the job.
Daniel Haszard Eli Lilly whistle-blower
It is a stupid world. P***y should be free.
And a couple of others named so far are saying–well, they might have “met” these women, but they didn’t have sex. If there were joints available at these encounters, they probably “didn’t inhale” either.
P***y is great; but charging a lot is immoral, and doing the ladies with government funds is a mortal sin!
Newspapers all over the country delight in publishing the mug shots of johns picked up in sweeps of areas where hookers operate, before these johns have even been convicted. Why should the rich and powerful expect better treatment.
I forgot, they expect it because they are rich and powerful.
This person in the white house is a lunitic.His family should do the world and nation a great favor and have him commited.
Don’t just note how hypocritical this is, do something about it the next time you vote. Vote for a real progressive this time around, NO INCUMBANTS- not even Web. Kick them all out- the only thing they will ever understand is if the gravy train comes to a screeching halt.
Don’t give in to the biggest sheeple-creating lie out there: the lie that we can’t make a difference. Oh yes we can- they’re counting on us getting distracted by American Idol and CNN and FOX, but make yourself a post-it-note, if needed, and remember how stupid everyone in DC is- or at least all of the conservatives. Because if there is anyone who thinks paying for sex is worse than killing Iraqis, it’s our wonderful, thoughtful, loving Christian conservatives.
Tactical:
Way to seize the opportunity to attack Christian conservatives…Keep it up, you might be able to blame just about any thing on them- including your raging case of herpes.
Next time, try to keep the discussion on par and not consumed with your own personal vendettas.
Cheers.
Stop Mad Cowboy Disease!
Right-ON, ‘Tactical’ & most everyone else….
Christer conservatives SHOULD BE attacked en masse. THEY installed Nixon, Ray-gun, Bush, & W with one mandate: oppose any & all changes in society not strictly in accordance with the church’s wishes.
Castrate any politician with the testicular fabric to enjoy a little womanizing, libations, or ANY other activity not Sunday-school certified.
Thruout history, the unholy alliance of church and state has left a legacy that makes the Marquis de Sade pale by comparison. Nowadays, they are enjoined & embraced by their partners in humanistic crime, the media, who make Ed Murrow turn in coffin.
Where will it end…? When gas hits $5/gal ? Rent `Vendetta’, and learn the truth yourself.
Ops, Caught with the pants down? Politcal act moralistic, and go pay 300 bucks for a little pleasure nothing new there. Clintion just got caught others before him had better damage control to make not known to general public.
Dude! Jimbo, you’re overdue for a prozac buddy. Get a grip! You liberal nutbags seek every opportunity to bash republicans. “The groundhog saw his shadow…it’s a conservative plot to get citizens to turn up their thermostats to use more oil so we can invade mid-east countries”. Remember..They attacked us you bonehead. And slamming Reagan? Have you lost your mind?
Do you people have so little else to do that critique the US? Obviously those with talent and drive left your country to be here already. Those socialists left behind have alot of idle time since working is so abhorrent to them!
It is not written in the Patriot Act of 2001. Why the State Dept guy resigned. Please go back to your job and no one can kick you out. You can get the same P*** anywhere across town. There is a news coming from Ruetors News that Rumsfield’s name is on the list too.
Same old story - ‘do as I say, not what I do.’ Read the tales of the bishops who teach abstinence and then pork little boys or (centuries ago) pay off the nuns to steal girls from convents. It’s a fake religion made up by a Roman emperor to gain troops in a campaign against his enemies, which barely resembles the teachings of its actual founder. How true can a religion be, when its evangelists guilt poor old widows out of their life savings only to buy a new Mercedes for themselves? They control people through guilt over normal instincts. This was not the way of the actual messiah who taught the commandments. I’ve seen far more decent Moslems and even Wiccans … after all, THEY have rules they live by.
No Rotordock, I am in complete control of my faculties. That pathetic B grade actor brought enuf horrors to the US as president, that we seem to forget the botch job he did as governor of Kalli-Fornya…him & his bitch bride, Nancy, of “Just Say No” infamy.
And precisely who is “They” ? It was’nt the Iraqi’s. They only tried to off W’s daddy, and we have paid for W’s mindless vendetta with 3,000 American lives, lost intl respect, and soon-to-be $4/gal gas, with more to come….
You conservatives need to be lobotomized and sterilized, starting with Rush.