Nor could the systemically corrupt US government be certified under SEC. 7044(a) (2)(B) requiring, "Prior to the initial obligation of funds made available by this Act ...the Secretary of State shall certify ... (iv) the Government of Afghanistan is reducing corruption ...." Ashraf Ghani's government may well be "reducing corruption" in Afghanistan below its extraordinarily high level under the Karzai family which was installed for Bush II by his proconsul Zalmai Khalizad. Corruption may be marginally improving especially now that Karzai's American sponsors have mostly abandoned the country in anticipation of its impeding fall. But Barack Obama's government would be disqualified since it has clearly and deliberately, by acts of both commission and omission, increased the level of corruption here in the "homeland" many fold.
Obama inaugurated his project by projecting on others what would become a suitable epitaph for his own presidency: "To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history." Corruption, deceit and repression; CRomnibus , Snowden, and Manning. Orwell explained : "A society becomes totalitarian ... when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud." Perhaps a US democratic government in exile on the right side of history, reliant on the consent of the governed unlike Obama's corrupt government of occupation on the wrong side, could qualify for "democracy program" appropriations ironically funded by Obama's own Influence Peddlers Protection Act of 2015.
Addendum: "Dark Money Promotion Act" (selected provisions from Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016) (H.R. 2029)
Division E, Title I, SEC. 107. None of the funds made available under
this Act may be used by the Internal Revenue Service to
target citizens of the United States for exercising any
right guaranteed under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
[Translation: "right guaranteed under the First Amendment" is influence peddlers' and their Supreme Court patrons' lingo used euphemistically to both connote and provide protection for political corruption]
Division E, Title I , S EC . 127. During fiscal year 2016--
(1) none of the funds made available in this or
any other Act may be used ... to issue, revise, or finalize any regulation, revenue ruling, or other guidance not limited to a particular taxpayer relating to the standard which is
used to determine whether an organization is operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare for purposes of section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
[NOTE: 501 (c)(4) nonprofit groups are allowed to spend on projects for the "promotion of social welfare," such as, say, supporting Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio, with much less disclosure of their donors than is required of a campaign or political-action committee. They are the prime vehicles for political "dark money."]
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