Offramp Politics

Offramp Politics

When Power Is Sought Not to Govern, But to Delay

On Extradition, Strategy, and the Old Politics of Buying Time

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Thomas Jason Anderson
Jan 21, 2026
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There is a moment in every serious corruption case when the question stops being legal and starts being strategic.

Not:

What did the law say?
But:

What does the subject do next?

Over the years, working as a research journalist and later inside Washington’s think tank world, I learned to pay less attention to what people say in those moments and more attentio…

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