Corker on U.S. Cash to Karzai: "What if Other Countries Were Doing This?"

May 16, 2013 - Speaking on CNN about his continued quest for answers from the Obama administration regarding the CIA's secret payments to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Senator Corker wondered how the U.S. would react to other countries providing these payments. "[T]he fact we're taking suitcases full of cash and giving it to this democratically elected leader and possibly to relatives in other parts of the country, to me that is totally the antithesis of what [our] country represents," said Corker. "If we knew Russia or Iran or some other country was delivering suitcases full of cash to the Afghan president, how would we view that? I don't know why we're doing this...I want a public explanation as to why our country would be engaged in this kind of behavior."