icymi Recently released emails indicate that prominent national security reporter Ken Dilanian shared stories prior to publication with CIA press office seeking their approval, according to a story up on The Intercept.
Ken Dilanian routinely sent drafts of his stories to and closely worked with members of the CIA press office prior to publication while he was a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, The Intercept reports.
Ken Dilanian, when writing for Los Angeles Times, regularly solicited reaction & comment on his draft articles from CIA BEFORE publishing them. (Thanks to an FOIA request, we have exchanges of emails between Dilanian and John Brennan’s PR friends at CIA.) antiwar.com/blog/2021/08/2…
Dilanian got an absurdist MNSBC spot to explain one of his latest reports, which is based almost entirely on an assertion that Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe made in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
John Ratcliffe-endorsed by Tea Party Express, Senate Conservatives Fund, and Club for Growth & was a member of the Republican Study Committee and the Congressional NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus. All #KochNetwork
Peter Thiel, PayPal founder and Trump ally, to step down from Meta board
Thiel, a major donor to the Republican party, was seen by critics as part of the reason why Facebook did not censor Trump
Think recently donated $10m each to the Senate campaigns of Blake Masters, who is running for a seat in Arizona, and JD Vance, who is running in Ohio. Masters is the chief operating officer of Thiel’s family office and Vance used to work at one of Thiel’s venture funds.
Meet The Board Members Supporting Besieged Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick/sidenote: Kotick’s name appears in Jeffrey Epstein’s “Little Black Book”.
Bobby/Robert A. Kotick/has served on several boards, including The Coca-Cola Company since 2012 and the Call of Duty Endowment (CODE), which he co-founded in 2009. From 2003 to 2008, Kotick was a director at Yahoo! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Kot…
Jennifer H. Rearden/practiced at Davis Polk & Wardwell and in the Atlanta office of King & Spalding./2003, joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutche, NYC, While working at firm,represented Chevron in countersuit against Steven Donziger.
Jennifer H. Rearden had been strongly recommended by U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and was nominated as part of a bipartisan package of judicial nominees.
House subpoena names Caroline Wren, a veteran GOP fundraiser who received at least $170,000 from the Trump political operation-Wren #KochNetwork was listed as “VIP Advisor” on the permit granted by the National Park Service for the Jan. 6 rally 30/08/21
They’re hard to track, harder to regulate because “scam PACs” — committees that claim to be raising money for political campaigns but spend little to none of the proceeds on political activity — are what experts call a “know-it-if-you-see-it situation.” truthout.org/articles/scam-…
Tuck/2017For those trying to secretly influence the election, Oct. 20 was an important milestone. If super PAC waits ‘til then to register, it doesn't need to file any information about its donors w/FEC until 30 days after the election. Pretty smooth, eh? huffpost.com/entry/pacs-pop…