Clinton Administration Seeks to Increase Scope of Police and Other Administration of Justice Programs

During a hearing on September 14, 1993, held by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Clinton Administration recommended that the Administration of Justice (AOJ) programs be expanded both in the number of activities and their geographical scope. Timothy E. Wirth, Counselor of the Department of State, reviewed the history of the AOJ programs that started in the 1980s. Efforts to improve the rule of law started with programs in El Salvador in 1983 and the rest of Central America in 1984. The AOJ programs were later extended to other parts of South America, especially the Andean drug producing countries, the countries of Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union, and selected other states in Africa, the Middle East, and East Asia?[more]