Lessig's proposed solutions — public funding of elections, a new constitutional convention to overhaul the system — are less persuasive than his diagnosis, but that really speaks to the depth and reach of current corruption.
Yet India is also experiencing what one observer has called a "churning" period, as public frustrations are boiling over about poor roads, shoddy schools, inflation, rising inequality and the pervasive reach of official corruption.
Lessig's proposed solutions public funding of elections, a new constitutional convention to overhaul the system are less persuasive than his diagnosis, but that really speaks to the depth and reach of current corruption.
The tentacles of corruption reach deep into the UK (and US) financial systems.
He said he could represent all of Asia.The reach of the anti-corruption campaign into CCTV is also noteworthy.
The purge has extended to offices that were once out of the reach of ordinary anti-corruption campaigns, reportedly encompassing Jiang Jiemin, formerly the chairman of both the state energy giant PetroChina and its parent, China National Petroleum Corporation, and Li Dongsheng, a propagandist turned vice-minister of public security.
In the meantime, the justices have four major decisions remaining on their current docket before they recess for the summer: the legality of Obama's executive actions on immigration, affirmative action at public universities, regulations on abortion providers, and the reach of federal anti-corruption laws.
Other tapes suggest that Mr. Montesinos's web of corruption reached deep into the private sector.
In two years they have reached the same stage of corruption as white punch-'em-and-stick-'em-and-shoot-'em action movies.
Those of us, meanwhile, for whom one of the most shocking aspects of the report was the depth to which the tentacles of corruption reached, might have been forewarned by the 1999 Oscar-winning documentary One Day In September, fortuitously shown on BBC2 on the eve of the Hillsborough Report.
