Looks like this isn’t Obama’s first rodeo with trying to ‘fix’ elections to suit his own sick political agenda. It also explains the judicial persecution against Gen Flynn.
The outcome put Obama administration officials in a box. They had said corruption was intolerable but also had promised to respect Afghan sovereignty and not interfere with the election. Moreover, they did not want to completely alienate Karzai. If there was another vote, many saw him as the likely victor anyway.
In the end, the Obama administration brokered a deal in which Karzai was declared the winner after he agreed to share some power with his main rival. But in Lessons Learned interviews, several U.S. officials said the messy result ruined U.S. credibility.
According to Michael Flynn, who would later become President Trump’s national security adviser, U.S. forces played a pivotal role in the operation and pored over the seized documents and data.
New Ansari was just incredibly corrupt,” he said. “It had double books and people were just stealing us blind.”
Despite a huge cache of incriminating evidence, the criminal investigation soon hit a wall, Flynn added: “Was anyone held accountable? No, no one was held accountable.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-corruption-government/