Afghans go about their business in downtown Kabul on Dec. 7, 2004. Maine gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles has touted his experience leading the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs from 2003 to 2005, which included work in Afghanistan and Iraq. Credit: Desmond Boylan / Reuters

Bobby Charles says his experience in the federal government makes him the best choice to be Maine’s next governor.

Read the documents below we used to report on Charles’ time leading the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.

Sawyer Loftus is an investigative reporter at the Bangor Daily News, a 2024-2025 fellow with ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network, and was Maine's 2023-2024 journalist of the year. Sawyer previously...

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