Another UMNO hack job, courtesy of APCO and its K Street coterie
I am all for free speech and the Malaysian government should be allowed to represent its position. But to send government officials to basically go lobby K street on behalf of Saiful Bukhari is pretty pathetic. I don’t think it’s a good use of taxpayer dollars and I do think it makes a further mockery of our government and the elected officials in the BN.
Din Merican
On February 24th the Center for Strategic and International Studies will host several representatives of the UMNO ruling party for a “seminar” on Governance and the Rule of Law in Malaysia & Malaysian Legislative Initiatives. The program is as follows according to an email from CSIS Senior Advisor for Southeast Asia Ernie Bower (Partner at BrooksBowerAsia). (As an aside I have met Ernie and found him to be a reasonable person just trying to make a dollar in Asia, but am somewhat surprised that even he would stoop so low as to share a stage with this group).
Here is a copy of the email we received:
