Hamid Karzai, Certified Public Accountant

The CIA may have financed Afghan chieftain Hamid Karzai in a most haphazard manner--via Yankee dollars shoved into shopping bags and various other containers--but that doesn't mean the money was doled out haphazardly on Karzai's end. According to the chief, once the money was in the house, proper accounting methods were observed:

Kabul: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday denied that CIA cash delivered each month to his office was used to buy the support of warlords who could tip the country back into civil war. 

US Central Intelligence Agency has secretly handed over tens of millions of dollars to Karzai’s office over the last decade, the New York Times said recently in a revelation that provoked anger in both Washington and Kabul. 

But Karzai said the bundles of cash — allegedly packed in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags — were used for health care and scholarships, and that full receipts are issued to the Americans. 

“This money was not given to warlords,” the president told a press conference in Kabul.  

“The major part of this money was spent on government employees such as our guards... it has been paid to individuals not movements.”

Well, as long as he issued receipts I guess everything's on the up and up. ;)

Update: "Hamid Karzai hopes CIA payments will continue." Of course he does. It's like winning the freaking lottery over and over again without having to buy a ticket.