We can be sure that more information will come to light over time, but as of now we know that Nouri al Maliki's government is pushing out those employees in the government's ministries charged with overseeing the bureaucracy and keeping it transparent. The forcings-out (firings, retirements, etc) were not publicly announced but have recently come to light. Iraqi officials confirmed the dismissals yesterday; between 7 and 9 such employees have been dismissed. Of course, different sources attribute different degrees of political motivation to the situation. It doesn't require much reflection to see why dismissing accountability officers en masse suggests that you might have something to hide; on the other hand, the posts were created in response to American pressure, and several of these appointments were made under and by L. Paul Bremer's administration in 2004. (I haven't yet found information regarding whether there was any overlap between Bremer's appointees and the dismissed officials). I think there's something fundamentally different about dismissing an anticorruption officer from a post that has been in place in a sovereign government for years and dismissing an anticorruption officer from a post created and filled by a government widely considered an occupying force. Does that mean Maliki's/his government's dismissal of anticorruption officials isn't shady? Of course not. But it significantly complicates the issue.