Read this, on how Roger Stone took down Eliot Spitzer.
And “how the media are routinely manipulated by clever political operatives who are paid to attack their enemies by "leaking" damaging rumors in ways that quickly enter the mainstream media as fact.”
In 2009, Maggie Haberman’s father, Clyde Haberman, helped to break “the prostitution scandal that led to the resignation of Eliot Spitzer as New York governor.”
The same scandal that Roger Stone was paid to help coordinate, per the article above.
Through stark images and charts, this report gives a graphic illustration of how the global illicit economy has boomed in the past 20 years and how it poses a threat to security, development and justice.
h/t @CTIN_Global globalinitiative.net/analysis/globa…
If you or anyone you know isn't familiar with what "Transnational Organized Crime" is, this 20 minute video is a great introduction and helps grasp the importance and urgency.
The Global Illicit Economy: Trajectories of Transnational Organized Crime
If all of this sounds abstract, or as if it is happening on the other side of the world, you can research illicit markets in your own state.
You may be unpleasantly surprised by what you find.
The other author, Matthew Burrows, is a CIA veteran who has appeared on Russian state media, and has connections to people and groups close to Putin and the Kremlin.
“The Koch industry operates as a Trojan horse operation trying to destroy good institutions and they have pretty much the same views as the Russians,” said the person who signed the statement.
For background on this issue, if you have not already watched the presentation that Whitehouse gave during Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing, now would be a good time to catch up.
This is a must-watch primer on Dark Money in our judicial system.
Yesterday, the WSJ editorial board wrote a nasty column, trying to pre-frame this discussion in terms that are friendly to the interests that Whitehouse is calling out.
They use emotional language and try to claim that he is “threatening” the courts.
Just to be clear, these aren’t ordinary, harmless talking points that @weijia is repeating.
This is part of the GOP’s strategy to sabotage the recovery, harming Americans in the process (almost certainly causing deaths), and then blaming immigrants for people’s suffering.
In other words, @weijia is taking a harmful GOP messaging strategy that is designed to lead to the demonization of immigrants, and packaging it up as if “A lot of Americans are saying” it.
This isn’t something you do on accident. Look at her reaction when Psaki challenged her.
NYT columnist David Brooks is drawing a second salary for his work on an Aspen Institute project funded by Facebook and other large donors — a fact he has not disclosed in his columns.
The Aspen Institute think tank accepted more than $8 million in federal small-businesses funds despite having a $115 million endowment and a board of trustees populated by billionaires.