The NYT backs up the LAT's recent reporting: The U.S. is trying to influence the coming elections in Afghanistan--and in the process is "cutting corners" on the election--as the NYT puts it. "It's hard not to conclude that this was so much about getting an end result and not having a meaningful process," said the director of the indepedent Afghan Research and Evaluation Unit.
P.S. Any particular reason the NYT relegates the evidence of the U.S. undercutting democracy to navel-gazing central--aka the Week in Review?