The ice caps are melting, the terrorisms are on the rise, and the global economy is in collapse, and so naturally our intelligence services are spending America's last nickel paying off Argentine jerk-rag models to embarrass Hugo Chavez with fake testimony. And even she won't go along with the scheme because our credit is that bad:
[María Luján Telpuk] asserted that agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) made her an asylum and job offer in exchange for changing her attestation in a trial held in Miami in connection with the so-called "suitcase affair'Argentine Justice Minister Anibal Fernandez put it succinctly, "In Argentina, these agents would be in prison for coercion and bribery." Ha! Did you spot the cute reference to the rule of law there? Droll, Minister Fernandez, very droll.
