Power Corrupts

The Unthinkable Olive Branch

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Episode notes

When a brutal dictatorship collapses, there's a big problem: everyone who knows how to run the government is someone who worked for the brutal dictator. It's a battle of pragmatism vs. justice. Should Nazi civil servants be allowed to keep their jobs? Do we need Saddam Hussein's handpicked henchmen, experts, and cronies to keep the electricity on? We'll speak to Ambassador Paul Bremer, who effectively ran Iraq from Saddam's palace from 2003-2004. And we'll talk to a torture victim who extended an unthinkable olive branch to those who ordered his torture.

 

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Power Corrupts is written and narrated by Brian Klaas. The executive producer and sound editor is George McDonagh.