And that's saying something. The only appointment I can think of that WASN'T controversial (i.e., a mess) was Gates, and that wasn't really even an appointment.
Let’s face it. We are now saddled with the most corrupt, left wing administration since ...since....since ever!
I am not sure why anyone would think that foreign governments don’t do their best to recruit or develop special relationships with US officials; it is the way the world works and the US has certainly done it when it could and had the will/brain. Saudi Arabia and China are high on my list of countries that do this, as well as financing US electoral campaigns indirectly. Anyone remember Hsu?
All that said, since the end of the cold war, it seems the US congress has been increasingly for sale.
Obama is an agent for the House of Suad.