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</div><div><b>I knew Brett Kavanaugh during his years as a Republican operative. Don't let him sit on the Supreme Court.</b></div><div><b>We were part of a close circle of cynical hard-right operatives being groomed for much bigger things.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Sept. 7, 2018,&nbsp;</div><div>By David Brock</div><div>I used to know Brett Kavanaugh pretty well. And, when I think of Brett now, in the midst of his hearings for a lifetime appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, all I can think of is the old "Aesop's Fables" adage: "A man is known by the company he keeps."</div><div>
</div><div>And that's why I want to tell any senator who cares about our democracy: Vote no.</div><div>
</div><div>Twenty years ago, when I was a conservative movement stalwart, I got to know Brett Kavanaugh both professionally and personally.</div><div>
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</div><div>Brett actually makes a cameo appearance in my memoir of my time in the GOP, "Blinded By The Right." I describe him at a party full of zealous young conservatives gathered to watch President Bill Clinton's 1998 State of the Union address — just weeks after the story of his affair with a White House intern had broken.&nbsp;<b>When the TV camera panned to Hillary Clinton, I saw Brett — at the time a key lieutenant of Ken Starr, the independent counsel investigating various Clinton scandals — mouth the word "bitch."</b></div><div>
</div><div>But there's a lot more to know about Kavanaugh than just his Pavlovian response to Hillary's image. Brett and I were part of a close circle of cold, cynical and ambitious hard-right operatives being groomed by GOP elders for much bigger roles in politics, government and media. And it’s those controversial associations that should give members of the Senate and the American public serious pause.</div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Call it Kavanaugh's cabal: There was his&nbsp;</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">colleague on the Starr investigation, Alex Azar, now the Secretary of Health and Human Services</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">. Mark Paoletta is now chief counsel to Vice President Mike Pence;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;House anti-Clinton gumshoe<b>&nbsp;Barbara Comstock&nbsp;</b>is now a Republican member of Congress<b>. Future Fox News personalities Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson were there with Ann Coulter, now a best-selling author, and internet provocateur Matt Drudge.</b></span></div><div>
</div><div>At one time or another, each of them partied at my Georgetown townhouse amid much booze and a thick air of cigar smoke.</div><div>
</div><div>In a rough division of labor, Kavanaugh played the role of lawyer — one of the sharp young minds recruited by the Federalist Society to infiltrate the federal judiciary with true believers. Through that network,&nbsp;<b>Kavanaugh was mentored by D.C. Appeals Court Judge Laurence Silberman, known among his colleagues for planting leaks in the press for partisan advantage.</b></div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">When, as I came to know,&nbsp;<b>Kavanaugh took on the role of designated leaker to the press of sensitive information from Starr's operation</b>, we all laughed that Larry had taught him well.</span>&nbsp;(Of course, that sort of political opportunism by a prosecutor is at best unethical, if not illegal.)</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Another compatriot was George Conway (now Kellyanne's husband), who led a secretive group of right-wing lawyers — we called them "the elves"</b>&nbsp;— who worked behind the scenes directing the litigation team of Paula Jones, who had sued Clinton for sexual harassment. I knew then that information was flowing quietly from the Jones team via Conway to Starr's office — and also that Conway's go-to man was none other than Brett Kavanaugh.</span></div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">That critical flow of inside information&nbsp;<b>allowed Starr, in effect, to set a perjury trap for Clinton, laying the foundation for a crazed national political crisis and an unjust impeachment over a consensual affair.</b></span></div><div>
</div><div><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">But the cabal's godfather was Ted Olson, the then-future solicitor general for George W. Bush and now a sainted figure of the GOP establishment&nbsp;</b>(and of some liberals for his role in legalizing same-sex marriage).&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Olson had a largely hidden role as a consigliere to the "Arkansas Project" — a multi-million dollar dirt-digging operation on the Clintons, funded by the eccentric right-wing billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife and run through The American Spectator magazine, where I worked at the time.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Both Ted and Brett had what one could only be called an unhealthy obsession with the Clintons — especially Hillary</b>.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;While Ted was pushing through the Arkansas Project conspiracy theories claiming that Clinton White House lawyer and Hillary friend Vincent Foster was murdered (he committed suicide), Brett was costing taxpayers millions by pedaling the same garbage at Starr's office.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A detailed analysis of Kavanaugh's own notes from the Starr Investigation reveals he was cherry-picking random bits of information from the Starr investigation — as well as the multiple previous investigations — attempting vainly to legitimize wild right-wing conspiracies. For years he chased down each one of them without regard to the emotional cost to Foster’s family and friends, or even common decency.</span></div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kavanaugh was not a dispassionate finder of fact but rather an engineer of a political smear campaign. And after decades of that, he expects people to believe he's changed his stripes.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Like millions of Americans this week, I tuned into Kavanaugh's hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee with great interest. In his opening statement and subsequent testimony,&nbsp;</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kavanaugh presented himself as a "neutral and impartial arbiter" of the law. Judges, he said, were not players but akin to umpires — objectively calling balls and strikes</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">.&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Again and again, he stressed his "independence" from partisan political influences.</span></div><div>
</div><div>But I don't need to see any documents to tell you who Kavanaugh is — because I've known him for years. And I'll leave it to all the lawyers to parse Kavanaugh's views on everything from privacy rights to gun rights. But I can promise you that any pretense of simply being a fair arbiter of the constitutionality of any policy regardless of politics is simply a pretense. He made up his mind nearly a generation ago — and, if he's confirmed, he'll have nearly two generations to impose it upon the rest of us.</div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">epoch fail</font></div><div><p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: normal;">
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border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;"><p id="viewer-foo" class="mm8Nw _1j-51 roLFQS _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" style="margin: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-variant: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset);"><span class="2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 102); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Epoch Times: "In an interview with The Epoch Times, Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice, said, 'The election is over.'</font></span></span></p><div type="paragraph" data-hook="rcv-block1" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;"><div id="viewer-12op2" class="mm8Nw 1j-51 roLFQS _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); line-height: 1.5; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset);"><span class="2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: var(--ricos-custom-p-background-color,unset); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></font></span></span></div><div type="empty-line" data-hook="rcv-block2" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;"><p id="viewer-6svqc" class="mm8Nw 1j-51 roLFQS _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" style="margin: 0px; background: transparent; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-variant: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset);"><span class="2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: var(--ricos-custom-p-background-color,unset); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brock is 'doing this just to destroy the lives of the attorneys who defended Trump,' but 'everyone, even people that David Brock hates, deserves vigorous legal representation.'</font></span></span></p><div type="paragraph" data-hook="rcv-block3" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;"><div id="viewer-droqj" class="mm8Nw 1j-51 roLFQS _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); line-height: 1.5; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset);"><span class="2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: var(--ricos-custom-p-background-color,unset); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></font></span></span></div><div type="empty-line" data-hook="rcv-block4" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;"><p id="viewer-eb3l5" class="mm8Nw 1j-51 roLFQS _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" style="margin: 0px; background: transparent; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-variant: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset);"><span class="2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: var(--ricos-custom-p-background-color,unset); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'It is certainly at odds with both the First Amendment and the right of all Americans to have legal representation. It’s just bully tactics' and 'a particularly vicious streak of cancel culture,' Levey said.</font></span></span></p><div type="paragraph" data-hook="rcv-block5" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;"><div id="viewer-39p43" class="mm8Nw 1j-51 roLFQS _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); line-height: 1.5; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset);"><span class="2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: var(--ricos-custom-p-background-color,unset); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></font></span></span></div><div type="empty-line" data-hook="rcv-block6" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;"><p id="viewer-dsq4s" class="mm8Nw 1j-51 roLFQS _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" style="margin: 0px; background: transparent; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-variant: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset);"><span class="2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: var(--ricos-custom-p-background-color,unset); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The nonprofit describes itself as 'devoted to restoring the Founders’ vision of a federal judiciary governed by the rule of law and anchored by the Constitution.'"...</font></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></article></div><p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: normal;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">---</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; font-size: small; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>a longtime Hillary Clinton ally’s new cancel-culture group announced it plans to spend millions of dollars to disbar 111 lawyers in 26 states who defended the Trump campaign in post-election litigation, or were involved in efforts to challenge the 2020 presidential election results.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; font-size: small; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>According to an Axios&nbsp;<a href="https://www.axios.com/trump-election-lawyers-disbar-5c2b9252-d15d-495f-a759-2446d9fa62e8.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">report</a>, The 65 Project, founded by longtime Democratic Party operative David Brock (pictured above), has begun filing bar complaints against attorneys and plans to run ads in battleground states</b>, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The group also intends to lobby the American Bar Association and state bar associations to create rules forbidding some election challenges, and to adopt model language stipulating “fraudulent and malicious lawsuits to overturn legitimate election results violate the ethical duties lawyers must abide by.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Brock, an erstwhile conservative journalist who switched sides and became a fundraiser for Democrats, founded Media Matters for America and the American Bridge 21st Century super PAC. The “65” refers to the number of lawsuits the group claims were filed that were aimed at invalidating the 2020 election results.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; font-size: small; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brock told Axios the purpose of The 65 Project is to “not only bring the grievances in the bar complaints, but shame them and make them toxic in their communities and in their firms.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; font-size: small; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I think the littler fish are probably more vulnerable to what we’re doing,” he said. “You’re threatening their livelihood. And, you know, they’ve got reputations in their local communities.”</font></p><div style="font-size: small; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The article states that the project “hopes to deter right-wing legal talent from signing on to any future GOP efforts to overturn elections—including the midterms, or 2024.”</b>&nbsp;The group is the brainchild of Melissa Moss, a Democrat consultant and former senior Clinton administration official.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although the media outlet reports the group intends to spend around $2.5 million in its first year, and will operate through an existing nonprofit called Law Works, The 65 Project’s website is asking for donations to be made to it through another nonprofit, Franklin Education Forum, which provides debate and media training for left-wing activists.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Texas lawyer Paul M. Davis, who is being targeted by The 65 Project, told Axios the group’s effort “is nothing more than a desperate attempt by leftist hacks and mercenaries.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Davis said the project’s goal is “to neutralize anyone on the right with the ability to stand in the way of the left’s efforts to hide malfeasance in the 2020 elections and to clear the path for a repeat of similar malfeasance in the 2022 mid-terms.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Three attorneys contacted by The Epoch Times were critical of The 65 Project to varying degrees.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>High-profile attorney Sidney Powell, who is appealing sanctions imposed on her by a federal judge for filing a supposedly frivolous election-related lawsuit, said The 65 Project is “unconstitutional, un-American, abusive, and hateful.”</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Referring to Brock, she said by email: “I can’t even imagine how soulless and sick he and his comrades have to be to dedicate themselves and millions of dollars to try to destroy the lives and livelihoods of others. Those dollars could be spent instead to build Habitat homes or shelters for the homeless. Brock and his ilk don’t solve problems; they create them. Pathetic.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">In an interview with The Epoch Times, Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice, said “the election is over.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Brock is “doing this just to destroy the lives of the attorneys who defended Trump,” but “everyone, even people that David Brock hates, deserve vigorous legal representation.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">“It is certainly at odds with both the First Amendment and the right of all Americans to have legal representation. It’s just bully tactics,” and “a particularly vicious streak of cancel culture,” Levey said.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The nonprofit describes itself as “devoted to restoring the Founders’ vision of a federal judiciary governed by the rule of law and anchored by the Constitution.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Former Department of Justice civil rights attorney J. Christian Adams told The Epoch Times by email that, on the one hand, The 65 Project is “another reason not to get involved with flimsy legal theories, and only bring cases with merit.”</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the other hand, “it shows the Left is swimming in so much cash that they can implement any thuggish program they choose to,” said Adams, who is president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation&nbsp;(PILF).</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The foundation describes itself as “the nation’s only public interest law firm dedicated wholly to election integrity.” The nonprofit organization “exists to assist states and others to aid the cause of election integrity, and fight against lawlessness in American elections.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 65 Project website highlights the bar complaints it has filed so far against pro-Trump lawyers for their involvement in post-election lawsuits or activities.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The attorneys targeted so far are: Davis (<a href="https://the65project.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/The-65-Projects-Ethics-Complaint-Against-Vexatious-Attorney-Paul-Davis.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">pdf</a>); Cleta Mitchell (<a href="https://the65project.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/The-65-Projects-Ethics-Complaint-Against-Trump-Attorney-Cleta-Mitchell.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">pdf</a>); Jenna Ellis (<a href="https://the65project.com/ethics-complaint-against-trump-attorney-jenna-ellis/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">pdf</a>); Joseph diGenova (<a href="https://the65project.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/The-65-Projects-Ethics-Complaint-Against-Trump-Attorney-Joseph-diGenova.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">pdf</a>); Boris Epshteyn (<a href="https://the65project.com/ethics-complaint-against-trump-attorney-boris-epshteyn/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">pdf</a>); William McCall Calhoun (<a href="https://the65project.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/The-65-Projects-Ethics-Complaint-Against-Insurrectionist-Attorney-William-Calhoun.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">pdf</a>); William Bradley Carver (<a href="https://the65project.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/The-65-Projects-Ethics-Complaint-Against-False-Elector-William-Carver.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">pdf</a>); Daryl Moody (<a href="https://the65project.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/The-65-Projects-Ethics-Complaint-Against-False-Elector-Daryl-Moody.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">pdf</a>); and James Troupis and Andrew Hitt (<a href="https://the65project.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/The-65-Projects-Ethics-Complaint-Against-False-Elector-Andrew-Hitt-and-Trump-Attorney-James-Troupis.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">pdf</a>). Carver, Moody, and Hitt are accused of falsely claiming to be presidential electors. Troupis is accused of coordinating false elector slates.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Marc Elias is leading a related effort to disqualify Republican candidates for allegedly supporting an insurrection against the United States by backing then-President Donald Trump in congressional votes at the end of the 2020 election cycle. Those challenging the candidates cite an obscure post-Civil War constitutional provision intended to keep Confederacy supporters from public office.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So far, allies of Elias have tried to have two pro-Trump Republican congressmen kicked off the ballot for voting not to certify the electoral votes of Arizona and Pennsylvania during a joint session of Congress Jan. 6 and Jan. 7, 2021. During the session, U.S. Capitol security was breached and the disturbance delayed certification of then-candidate Joe Biden’s election victory by several hours. Some of those activists who entered the Capitol are being prosecuted for attempting to obstruct an official proceeding. Some of those held in pretrial detention in the D.C. jail have complained of beatings and torture by guards.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The effort to remove Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) by invoking the Disqualification Clause of the 14th Amendment was unanimously rejected Feb. 18 by the bipartisan Indiana Election Commission, as The Epoch Times&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/indiana-officials-unanimously-reject-democrats-effort-to-disqualify-rep-jim-banks-from-2022-election-run_4289041.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">reported</a>. The challenge to the candidacy of Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) is still pending. More candidate challenges are expected.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Elias is a central figure in the “Russiagate” conspiracy.&nbsp;</b>He represented the Democratic National Committee and Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, hiring Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research against then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. That research effort culminated in the now-discredited 35-page dossier written by former British spy Christopher Steele that purported to tie Trump to the Russian government.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brock, through his Media Matters for America website, which purports to combat “conservative misinformation,” has promoted the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory and Clinton for years.&nbsp;<b>Funded by left-wing financier George Soros, Media Matters has, in turn,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/media-matters-for-america/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">funded</a>&nbsp;the Franklin Education Forum.</b></font></p><div class="author_wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="one_author_block round" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This article by Matthew Vadum appeared March 8, 2022, in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-cancel-culture-group-aims-to-disbar-pro-trump-lawyers_4323219.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">The Epoch Times</a>.</b></font></div></div><p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: normal;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">----</font></p></div></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>How Hillary Clinton helped create what she later called the ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’</b></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>By Karen Tumulty</div><div>September 3,<b>&nbsp;2016</b></div><div>
</div><div>Hillary Clinton speaks to news organizations on Jan. 26, 1996, the day she testified before a grand jury investigating the Whitewater scandal. (James A. Parcell/The Washington Post)</div><div>The epic battles between the Clintons and their tormentors on the right have shaped American politics for nearly a quarter-century.</div><div>
</div><div>But there was a moment early on when the toxic course of that history might have been changed, had it not been for Hillary Clinton’s impulses toward secrecy.</div><div>
</div><div>It came one weekend near the end of Bill Clinton’s first year as president, and it pitted the first lady against her husband’s advisers.</div><div>
</div><div>“If a genie offered me the chance to turn back time and undo a single decision from my White House tenure, I’d head straight to the Oval Office dining room on Saturday morning, December 11, 1993,” ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, then a top aide to the president, wrote in his memoir “All Too Human.”</div><div>
</div><div>There was an urgent meeting that day to discuss a request by The Washington Post for documents relating to the Whitewater Development Corp., a failed Arkansas real estate investment in which the Clintons had been involved.</div><div>
</div><div>Whitewater had been an issue in the 1992 presidential campaign. More recently, questions had arisen about whether the land deal and the Clintons might be linked to the collapse of a savings and loan.</div><div>
</div><div>Stephanopoulos and David Gergen, another senior adviser, were internal rivals at the time who agreed on almost nothing. But both argued for full disclosure of the records. After a few days of rough coverage, they confidently predicted, the story would go away as the press corps discovered there was nothing sinister to the land deal and turned its attention elsewhere.</div><div>
</div><div>The president would not budge — and both of them knew why.</div><div>
</div><div>“Hillary Clinton is a woman of many strengths and virtues, but like all of us, she also has some blind spots,” Gergen said in a recent interview. “She does not see the world in the same way that others do, when it comes to transparency and accountability.”</div><div>
</div><div>She was not in the room, but the aides felt her presence.</div><div>
</div><div>“You could usually tell when Clinton was making Hillary’s argument: Even if he was yelling, his voice had a flat quality, as if he were a high school debater speeding through a series of memorized facts,” Stephanopoulos wrote. “Gergen and I didn’t know what was in the Whitewater documents, but whatever it was, Hillary didn’t want it out — and she had a veto.”</div><div>
</div><div>The fallout from that decision to stonewall would be enormous. Pressure built for the appointment of a prosecutor, first Robert B. Fiske Jr., then Kenneth W. Starr, who had been solicitor general under President George H.W. Bush.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Starr’s far-ranging investigation ultimately uncovered Bill Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, which led to his impeachment for perjury and obstruction of justice</b>.</div><div>
</div><div>Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, would have the dark distinction of becoming the only first lady ever called before a federal grand jury. In 1996, she testified for four hours, mostly to answer ­questions about subpoenaed ­Whitewater-related documents that had vanished and then suddenly reappeared in the White House living quarters.</div><div>
</div><div>Gergen, Stephanopoulos and other top Clinton aides from that era — some of whom ended up with huge legal bills of their own — contend that none of this might have happened had Hillary Clinton been more open in the first place.</div><div>
</div><div>“I believe that decision against disclosure was the decisive turning point. If they had turned over the Whitewater documents to The Washington Post in December 1993, their seven-year-old land deal would have soon disappeared as an issue and the story of the next seven years would have been entirely different,” Gergen wrote in “Eyewitness to Power,” his book about his time working for four presidents, from Nixon to Clinton.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Nannygate, Travelgate, Whitewater, Filegate:</b>&nbsp;It's tough to remember all the scandals that plagued President Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary Clinton through the '90s. For millennials, here's what you missed. For everyone else, here's a refresher. (Sarah Parnass,Adriana Usero/The Washington Post)]</div><div>
</div><div>As he has watched the controversies that have beset her current presidential campaign, particularly the one over her private emails, Gergen has been struck by parallels to that pivotal moment in 1993.</div><div>
</div><div>“She has built a protective shield around herself,” Gergen said. “Her first response is, when people come after me, I’m going to have my guard up and be suspicious of what their motives are.”</div><div>
</div><div>[The inside story of how the Clintons built a $2 billion global empire]</div><div>
</div><div><b>Clinton drew the opposite lesson from those early Whitewater experiences — one that also shapes how she operates today.</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Her view was that she should have thrown up more resistance.</b></div><div>
</div><div>In a conference call on Jan. 11, 1994, exactly one month after the meeting in which Stephanopoulos and Gergen had been overruled, the president’s aides convinced the Clintons that they should request an independent investigation to quell the growing media furor.</div><div>
</div><div>“We will never know if Congress would eventually have forced an independent counsel on us. And we will never know whether releasing an inevitably incomplete set of personal documents to The Washington Post would have averted a special prosecutor,” she wrote in “Living History,” her memoir. “With the wisdom of hindsight, I wish I had fought harder.”</div><div>
</div><div>The real problem, Clinton argued, was that “we were being swept up in what legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin later described as the politicization of the criminal justice system and the criminalization of the political system.”</div><div>
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</div><div>Documents from the Whitewater investigation are unloaded at the Ford House Office Building on Capitol Hill in 1998. (Susan Biddle/The Washington Post)</div><div>
</div><div><b>Industry of scandal</b></div><div>Since then, an entire industry has grown up around Clinton scandals, pseudoscandals and conspiracy theories.</div><div>
</div><div>Millions of dollars have been raised and spent, both by their adversaries and their defenders. Republican-led congressional investigations have been launched, and lawsuits filed by conservative watchdog groups. The two sides wage constant war on the Internet, talk radio and cable news channels.</div><div>
</div><div><b>A search of Amazon.com finds more than 40 anti-Hillary books, with titles such as “American Evita” and “Can She Be Stopped?”</b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">At the moment, three of the top-10 offerings on the New York Times’ hardcover nonfiction bestseller list are volumes bashing the Clintons.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">So Hillary Clinton had it right when she made her famous declaration that a “vast right-wing conspiracy” was out to get her and her husband. The opposition was and is passionate. It is well financed. It sees dark — sometimes preposterous — motives in nearly everything the Clintons do</span>.</div><div>
</div><div><b>By the time Barack Obama took office, what she had called a conspiracy had grown into a permanent institution.</b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On an ideological and political level, it fought Obama’s expansive view of government through legislation, lawsuits and grass-roots movements such as the tea party. In its darker corners, it spread sinister rumors about his patriotism, his religious beliefs and even his citizenship.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Through it all, Hillary Clinton has remained a target for a particularly intense kind of vehemence.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>“Over time, some on the far right have made her into a ­boogiewoman to instill fear and raise money,” said John Weaver, a GOP strategist. “Is she the devil incarnate? No. These critics can’t even explain why they hate her. It’s unhealthy for our politics.”</b></div><div>
</div><div>The Clintons’ aversion to transparency, as well as their tendency to skirt the rules and play close to the legal and ethical line, have made it easier for their enemies.</div><div>
</div><div>Their defensiveness seems to have deepened, which worries longtime friends and advisers.</div><div>
</div><div>“I think she’s much more of that bent than he is. He sees the sunnier side, rather than the darker side,” said one former top aide who has known both Clintons for decades, and who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk freely. “It’s grown worse over the years, and it’s now built up into, ‘They are out to get us.’ They’re not wrong, but did part of this come from their secretiveness and unwillingness to make a clean breast of things?”</div><div>
</div><div>[What Hillary Clinton’s emails tell us about her management style]</div><div>
</div><div><b>Hillary Clinton cannot shake continuing questions over her use of a private email account when she was secretary of state and the Clinton Foundation’s omnivorous appetite for contributions from donors who have government business.</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Polls consistently show that strong majorities of voters do not consider her to be honest or trustworthy.</b></div><div>
</div><div>That is because the perceptions have had a long time to settle. There are many through-lines from the controversies of the 1990s to the ones dogging the Clintons today.</div><div>
</div><div>When the existence of her private email account became public last year, Hillary Clinton initially claimed that she had set it up for convenience. It later became clear that she did it in part because she wanted to have the power to keep her records outside the realm of public discovery — just as she had hoped to do with the Whitewater documents.</div><div>
</div><div>A State Department inspector general’s report noted that when the agency’s deputy chief of staff for operations suggested in 2010 that she set up a government account, the secretary responded, “Let’s get separate address or device<b>&nbsp;but I don’t want any risk of the personal being accessible</b>.”<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;She would delete more than 30,000 emails from her personal server before turning over the remainder in response to a State Department demand.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Similarly, the current questions of whether donors to the Clinton Foundation received special State Department access are an echo of the campaign-finance scandals that erupted during Bill Clinton’s presidency.</div><div>
</div><div><b>The evidence thus far does not confirm any “pay to play” operation. It does indicate that some who wrote big foundation checks saw those gifts as a means of opening doors .</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">On Aug. 27, the conservative group&nbsp;<b>Citizens United</b>&nbsp;released emails obtained as part of a public records lawsuit. They showed that Clinton Foundation official Doug Band had pressed Clinton aide Huma Abedin to invite three donors, who had given millions to the foundation, to a 2011 State Department lunch with Hu ­Jintao, the Chinese president at the time</span>.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Emails made public earlier showed, among other things, a sports executive using his foundation connections to press for a visa for a soccer player, and the crown prince of Bahrain going the same route to ask for a last-minute meeting with the secretary of state after “normal channels” failed.</b></div><div>
</div><div>[Emails reveal how foundation donors got access to Clinton and her close aides at State Department]</div><div>
</div><div><b>“You can’t tell where the Clinton Foundation ends and the State Department begins. Big donors get all the access, and that’s what this is about,” said David Bossie, who until this week was president of Citizens United. On Thursday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump named Bossie his deputy campaign manager.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bossie and other Clinton critics say that there is precedent in arrangements made during the 1990s.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Six-figure contributors to the Democratic National Committee were offered sleepovers in the Lincoln Bedroom and invited to coffees in the White House Map Room, where regulators with oversight of their industries were present.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sometimes, the fundraising touched the tripwire between the unseemly and the illegal. Bundler Johnny Chung made at least 49 visits to the Clinton White House, including one when he dropped off a $50,000 check at the first lady’s office. Two days after that, he was allowed to bring a group of Chinese business executives to watch the president’s radio address, where they had their pictures taken with Bill Clinton.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Chung later told federal investigators that $35,000 of the $366,000 he donated to the Democratic Party in 1996 came from the Chinese government. He pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>On the other hand, many of the murky conspiracy theories and rumors that have swirled around the Clintons over the years have proven to be groundless — ridiculous, even.</b></div><div>
</div><div>And yet, they persist. Trump has trafficked in ­rumors that Clinton has serious health problems, although there is no real evidence, outside of doctored ­video and ­out-of-context photos that keep bouncing around the Internet.</div><div>
</div><div>Clinton has called that speculation a “paranoid fever dream” on Trump’s part.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Earlier this year, Trump dredged up old speculation that the Clintons might have had a hand in the 1993 death of their close friend Vincent Foster, the White House deputy counsel.</b></div><div>
</div><div>“He knew everything that was going on, and then all of a sudden he committed suicide,” Trump said. “I will say there are people who continue to bring it up because they think it was absolutely a murder.”</div><div>
</div><div>There were five official investigations into Foster’s death. None found evidence that it was anything but suicide.</div><div>
</div><div>All told, seven separate ­independent-counsel investigations of Clinton administration officials were conducted during his years in office. They had cost taxpayers nearly $80 million by the spring of 1999.</div><div>
</div><div>Each time a new set of allegations arose, the prediction would come: This is the one that will do them in.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Scalp-hunting as sport</b></div><div><b>“There seems to be an undying belief that there’s a silver bullet here,” said<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> David Brock</span>, who runs a group of organizations allied with the Clintons, and who has been on both sides of the Clinton wars. When one does not pan out, he said, “another conspiracy theory is hatched.”</b></div><div>
</div><div>In the early 1990s, Brock was an investigative reporter for conservative publications. A story he wrote for the American Spectator claimed that Arkansas state troopers had arranged for trysts for Bill Clinton while he was governor there. One of the women mentioned, Paula Jones, subsequently filed a sexual harassment suit against Clinton that became part of Starr’s investigation and ultimately triggered the perjury charge against him.</div><div>
</div><div>Controversies of varying degrees of seriousness tumbled by during Clinton’s eight years in office: Troopergate, Filegate, Travelgate, Chinagate, Pardongate. Even the more trivial ones left an aroma of malfeasance long after details had become a blur.</div><div>
</div><div>All of it drew upon a cynicism and suspicion of government officials that harked back to the first “gate” — Watergate. Hillary Clinton had come to Washington fresh out of law school to work for the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment inquiry of Richard M. Nixon.</div><div>
</div><div>Watergate produced new levers against corruption. After Nixon’s resignation, the Freedom of Information Act was strengthened. Congress also passed the Ethics in Government Act, which called for more financial disclosure from government officials and set up procedures for independent investigations of those who were accused of wrongdoing.</div><div>
</div><div>Meanwhile, news organizations had become more skeptical of government and less willing to take officials at their word.</div><div>
</div><div>When Bill and Hillary Clinton arrived in the White House, scalp-hunting had already become part of Washington’s political culture.</div><div>
</div><div>The Reagan administration’s Iran-contra affair was still a fresh memory. The Supreme Court nominations of Robert H. Bork in 1987 and Clarence Thomas in 1991 had turned into epic partisan battles. In 1989, former senator John Tower (R-Tex.) failed a confirmation vote as defense secretary because he had a reputation as a heavy drinker, marking the first time in 30 years that a president had been denied a Cabinet pick. Later that year, a tenacious backbench congressman named Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) forced the resignation of House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Tex.) over ethics charges.</div><div>
</div><div><b>One of the most dogged groups to pursue the Clintons has been Judicial Watch</b>, a conservative organization founded in 1994. Its current efforts include 18 active lawsuits to force the disclosure of public records from Hillary Clinton’s State Department tenure.</div><div>
</div><div>“The permanent infrastructure around government corruption began with Watergate. Up until Judicial Watch, [watchdog groups] were all creatures of the left,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “The right is increasingly using the same tools to great effect.”</div><div>
</div><div><b>Among Judicial Watch’s early funders was Richard Mellon Scaife, the reclusive heir to a banking fortune who died in 2014. He also bankrolled American Spectator and its “Arkansas project” to examine the Clintons’ past.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;AKA RWI?!</span></b></div><div>
</div><div>Why were the Clintons such an inviting target, and why have they remained one all these years?</div><div>
</div><div>As with everything else, the two sides have diametrically different views.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Trump has labeled Clinton “crooked Hillary” and says she may be “the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency.”</b></div><div>
</div><div>The couple had a reputation for shading the truth that began even before they reached the White House. Bill Clinton was known as “Slick Willie” back in Arkansas, and the nickname seemed to fit as he glided through political eruptions over his actions.</div><div>
</div><div>He had smoked marijuana at Oxford University, he admitted, but insisted he had not inhaled. He had avoided the Vietnam draft around that time by signing up for ROTC, then reneged on the promise when a high lottery number ensured that he would not be selected. He steadfastly denied a 1992 tabloid report that he had had a 12-year affair with an Arkansas state government worker and cabaret singer named&nbsp;<b>Gennifer Flowers&nbsp;</b>— only to acknowledge in a deposition six years later that he had had a sexual relationship with her. And while he did not admit to harassing<b>&nbsp;Jones, [ELVES?]&nbsp;</b>another Arkansas state employee, he ended up paying $850,000 to settle a lawsuit that originally asked for $700,000.</div><div>
</div><div>Hillary Clinton also became known for telling implausible stories when her back was against the wall. When it came out in 1994 that she had turned a $1,000 investment in cattle futures into nearly $100,000 in a matter of months in the 1970s, the White House initially claimed that the novice trader had based her decisions on information she found in the Wall Street Journal.[VS?]</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Clintons were also the first baby boomers to reach the White House, bringing with them the unresolved debates that had raged between the left and the right since the 1960s.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“They represented a huge cultural shift, not only generationally, but Hillary as the first lady, with her own professional identity and political portfolio. All of that inspired a lot of fear among opponents of that change,” Brock said.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The former Clinton aide added, “It’s Vietnam, pot, sex — and God knows, Clinton represented all of that.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Some argue that what really bothered the right was the fact that Bill Clinton was such a skillful politician. He had co-opted them on issues they regarded as their own — among them, crime, trade and welfare reform.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>“I think the Republicans figured early on they couldn’t take him down politically. He was too adept,” so they found other ways, the Clinton aide said.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Whether that was the calculation or not, his opponents were constantly attacking. They went far beyond raising questions of government impropriety. Right-wing talk radio and the new&nbsp;<b>medium of the Internet, which brought in fresh players, including the Drudge Report, spread fantastic theories tying the Clintons to everything from drug-running to murder.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“By 1996, it was in full force. Although we had the White House, Hillary was always very critical of the lack of effectiveness in our response,</span>” the former presidential aide said.</div><div>
</div><div><b>At one point, the Clinton team assembled a 332-page internal report which alleged a “communication stream of conspiracy commerce.”</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">They came up with a&nbsp;<b>byzantine</b>&nbsp;theory of how it all worked: Unverified stories would originate at right-wing organizations, find their way onto the Internet, be picked up by conservative publications or London tabloids, make their way back into the U.S. media, then trigger congressional inquiries — at which point, they would become legitimate fodder for mainstream news organizations.</span></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Opponents dismissed this view as paranoia. C. Boyden Gray, who had been George H.W. Bush’s White House counsel, called it “kind of goofy,</b>” but he conceded that every president feels embattled at some point.</div><div>
</div><div>“I think that happens to many White Houses,” Gray told The Post. “But I don’t think any of us would have put that much pen to paper.”</div><div>
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</div><div>Kenneth W. Starr, independent counsel in the Whitewater investigation, talks to the media in 1997 outside his offices in Little Rock. (Jeff Mitchell/Reuters)]</div><div>
</div><div>Recruiting the enemy</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Brock, whose article about the Arkansas state troopers had sparked the Paula Jones lawsuit, disavowed the anti-Clinton forces in a 1997 Esquire article headlined “Confessions of a Right-Wing Hit Man.” He followed that up in 2002 with a book, “Blinded by the Right</span>.”</div><div>
</div><div>“What interested Democrats about the book was not the personal confessions part of it, but the part that described the largely institutional efforts by the right,” he said.</div><div>
</div><div>Early the next year, Brock got a thank-you call from Bill Clinton, whom he had never met. The former president asked Brock what he planned to do next, and Brock described an idea for a liberal organization to push back against news coverage, much a<b>s Accuracy in Media had been doing from the right since 1969.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Clinton suggested that Brock create a business plan, which Brock did and sent to him. Bill Clinton shared it with Hillary, who by then was a New York senator.</div><div>
</div><div>She invited Brock to present it at meetings with her major donors in the fall of 2003, both in Washington and at her home in Chappaqua, N.Y.</div><div>
</div><div>Their checkbooks opened.</div><div>
</div><div><b>His group, Media Matters for America, launched in 2004.&nbsp;</b>Brock now runs four other organizations that he says were “built to counter the right-wing machine.”</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">They are Correct the Record, which describes itself as “a strategic research and rapid response team designed to defend Hillary Clinton from baseless attacks;</span>” American Bridge 21st Century, which focuses on opposition research; the Franklin Forum, which provides media training; and<b>&nbsp;Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group</b>&nbsp;he took over in 2014. He also sits on the board of the pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA Action.</div><div>
</div><div>Brock added, “I feel like the playing field has gotten much more level from the time I started doing this until now.”</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>He also noted that new, explicitly liberal media players have emerged — among them, the Huffington Post and Talking Points Memo.</b></div><div>
</div><div>All of which suggests that, should there be another Clinton presidency, the battles of the last one will continue and escalate. What Bill Clinton once described as the “politics of personal destruction” are now a permanent fixture of the U.S. political system, likely to endure long after anyone can remember what started it all.</div><div>
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</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A second, 12-page document sought to link Freedom From Facebook to Mr. Soros and to </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b style="">David Brock</b>, a Democratic operative who is widely portrayed in conservative circles as a master of political dirty tricks. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While pushing the connection to Mr. Soros, the document highlighted that protesters from Freedom From Facebook held up signs with images reminiscent of old, anti-Semitic propaganda.</span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Definers said in a statement that the document was “entirely factual and based on public records.”</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Eddie Vale, a Freedom From Facebook spokesman, said the coalition’s primary funder was the computer scientist David Magerman but he declined to disclose other funders. Mr. Vale said the coalition did not receive money from corporations. Open Society Foundations said it did not fund the coalition.</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Laura Silber, a spokeswoman for Open Society Foundations, said the philanthropy’s president spoke with Ms. Sandberg on Thursday and requested that Facebook commission an independent review of the company’s relationship with Definers, with results made public within three months.</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
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</font></div><div><h1 itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 12.5px 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Killing the Messenger</font></h1><h3 class="sub-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 12.5px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Right-Wing Plot to Derail Hillary and Hijack Your Government</font></h3><h4 itemprop="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 12.5px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">by&nbsp;<a href="http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/authors/david-brock/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">David Brock</a></font></h4></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-3ad02957-10ae-ac68-687f-010aafb3fc9c"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">killingmsgr</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Killing the Messenger: The Right-Wing Plot to Derail Hillary and Hijack Your Government</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">David Brock</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Grand Central Publishing, Sep 15, 2015 - Political Science - 304 pages</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">New York Times bestselling author and founder of Media Matters, David Brock takes readers on his daring and eye-opening odyssey through the maze of political trenches. </span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">David Brock is the ultimate happy warrior. Once a leading right-wing hit man, Brock is now the Left's pre-eminent defender and truth-teller.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">In this incisive, personal account, Brock disarms the major tentacles of the Republican Leviathan: the Koch Brothers, the Clinton haters, and the Fox Noise Machine. With the acumen of a seasoned political player, Brock takes readers inside his Democratic war rooms and their 24/7 battles with right-wing forces for control of the story lines and messages that will decide the 2016 election. And he chronicles his own evolution from lead Clinton attack-dog to one of Hillary Clinton's fiercest defenders as he knocks down the conservative case against her.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Finally, KILLING THE MESSENGER provides the no holds barred playbook for what the new right-wing conspirators will do in this election cycle to tear apart the electorate-and what good, engaged, and informed citizens can do to stop them.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">TABLE OF CONTENTS</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Introduction: Return to Little Rock</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">p. ix</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">8 rw pacs set up before she announced to run xxi</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Chapter 1</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Building the Machine</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">p. 1</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Acc in media set &nbsp;up to defend RMn VN and watergate p5 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">MRC 6 m$ budget (scaife) FAIR cash on hand 25K$</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">July 2004 kennedy school symps; Brokaw says Bozell has it wired w/ news ltr, aud --> immed response p 5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"> David Brooks Wkly Std &nbsp;rw has dazzlingly efficient ideological delivery system that swamps liberal efforts to get their ideas out" p6 &nbsp;around 2003?</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">22% get news from talk radio</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Rob Stein Democ Alliance 2004</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Peter Lewis progressive insurance funded brock</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Imus and Dobbs end up on Fox ciz</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Fox rept 2012</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Beck target Kevin Jennings; rove lied nambla 19</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Beck ad boycott</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">wapo's dana milbank</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Palin defended beck on his show</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">rw talk #2 to country music, but can't bill as high for ads (1/2) 25</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Chapter 2</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">How Democrats Got in the Game</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">p. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">27</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">corsi lie book on BO but MSNBC used MMA to derail from git (contessa brewer) 2008</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">2000 Al smeared as elite liar</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">RW Infra needed to pull gop eight, but no real divisions in left, so no apparatus needed 35</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">todd akin</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">am rising copy am bridge after BO re-elected 2012</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Chapter 3</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">The Party of Koch</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">p. 51</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Am Spect guys wd write ltr to scafe and get 6 figures to do BC oppo.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">david koch 1980 VP run (ltr in basement found sez loophole allow him to fund whole race if a cand). 57</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">wrote letter to RR told him to stop calling himself libertarian b/c he was not conserve enough.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">abolish fed res, dept of ed and energy, no min wage, no hwy $ abolish soc security # threat to nukes 58.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Fail --> 3 change: don't be cand 2) don't run to rt of gop &nbsp;but pull part rt 3) fund movement, not elections.59.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">vertically horizontally integrated strategy " 59 idea --> policy to educ, to grassroots org to lobby to litigation to pol action 59</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">mercatus at least 14m$ koch</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">koch funded FREE legal retreats 60 mercatus hit list regs 14 of 23 61</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">2102 400m$ fed elections</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">2007 82 house gop voted for; 2008 Mccain and gop platform acknowledged agw, McC cap and trade 63. [now zombies].</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">after CU N Carolina election $ 4x in 4 yrs, 3/4 from Pope 66; 70% of outside $ went to gop gov cand mcCrory (7 of top 10 gop)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">GOP ran NC 1st time in 100 yrs; "claice away social safety net" reverse focus on schools ?</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">NC 300 bills 1st yr; cut unemployment, daycare .... all John Locke fdn book ideas done 67 2 doz ALEC bills; </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">2010 aspen/koch 1.6$m ~ dems incumbent state reps, got 80% incl Feingold</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">WI flipped</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Justice Prosser &nbsp;2.7M$ kochs, broke tie to uphold walker kill collective bargaining. 68</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">afp 1.5M$ on ads alone to beat recall; bus in ppl10 m total; printed absentee ballots w/ wrong date 68</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">cut 800m from schools, stopped min wage up, added work req</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"> for food stamps (lost 30k ppl) voter ID...</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">2010 gop got control of 12 states</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">2012 dems got 1 mil more votes, but held house; VA BO 51%, 8 gop 3 dems house; mich 54% 9/3 dem</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Thom Tillis NC speaker house beat Kay hagan w/ 50M$ outside $ lots AFP so Reid lost mjr.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Chapter 4</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">The Scandal Launderers</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">p. 78</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">rw group is concentrated enough to support books that will not sell to mainstream (pimped by radio, fox help (grew big enough so normal houses stated imprint 79.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">ed kline (TT "slime") had some cred as ed of nyt so 2005 sentinel (penguin) print hillary book w/ smoking gun revelation that pat moynihan did not address her by name when he endorsed her? 80</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">even Rush doubted quotes in later book</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">ex wapo Ronald Kessler, trump 2012, vince foster</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">1995 chris lehane 332 pp</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">escalator effect; 83 10 ideol entr and CTT start bs 2) Internet, either UK tabloids to US mainstream OR RW media --> Congress looks into it, thus it's a legit news story</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Drudge (if you don't take bait, branded a clinton defender" 85</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Hugh hewitt eclipse rush in infl if not #'s 87 harvard polish gives him cred;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">D Callet foster friess more $ after 2012 election</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">WFB orig kristyl Ctr Am Freedom (mirror CAP progress) beacon split off to be for profit co; ed is kristol son in law matt continetti but run by Michael Goldfarb koch provocateur 88 (paid oppo on BC)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">breitbart started w/ fds sherrod video? had to correct loretta lynch not whitewater lawyer</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">redstate erick erickson influential, TP old and new media</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">malkin twitchy to attack journalists via twitter</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">beck blazr and Indep Journal Review (paid?) much traffic</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Breitbart ed at large Ben Shapiro wrote that Chuck Hagel &nbsp;cand for sec of def (a Gop?) took money form Friends of Hamas (Slate's dave weigel traced path) redstate --> nat rev --> hugh h -->fox (huckabee), WT. origin NY Daily news fishing (also Jr League of Hezbollah"?) 91 &nbsp;shapiro after: "The &nbsp;story Breitbart News ran originally was accurate and clearly caveated" accused the reporter of lying about being source.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">oppos res has to be true? well-sources &nbsp;or reporters won't use it for fear of getting burned</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">twitter makes media clubbier 97</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">gossip generates clicks and no real penalty for being wrong</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">web filters /bubble</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">david bossie origin hit book 1992</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">2008 hillary the movie congenital liar, euro socialist</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">WFB hired GOP oppo shop to go thru clinton papers in Ark</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Chapter 5</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Getting Ready for Hillary</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">p. 100</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">drudge hype O'malley</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Chapter 6</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">How to Beat Hillary Clinton</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">p. 113</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">rove strat turn great strength to weak, eg kerry liar coward, traitor 126 &nbsp;200 SC primary whisper McC lost it as POW thus not fit prez</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">lie that HC ACA cutting medicare, when in fact strengthen it (gop wants to cut/kill it) `126</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Chapter 7</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Showdown at Foggy Bottom</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">p. 133</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">am risding wrote Failed Choices (2$ ebook) to ~ Hard Choices</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Chapter 8</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">How Benghazi Became #Benghazi</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">p. 150</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">... HC has to prove a false negative?</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Town Hall katie pavlich:men in libya died as help told to stand down 168 mcfarland on Fox said pol decision to to give them adequate security po decision not to rescue them (he ran against he for senate) 169</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">SOCAFRICA told guys not to board plane b/c no authorization (from?) but actually guys in tripoli were told beng ppl on way back and might need medical attan, so missing them bad move; no stand down order.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">but mid april 2103 sharyl Atk sez multiple whistleblowers; referred to lts leaked by issa comm (get sec clearance for lawyers to protect whist from anticipated admin retaliation, slyly suggested 171 then issa announced a hearing to see if admin suppressed info 171 --> Victoria Toensing (husb joe digenova old clinton days ark pjt)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">atk had done bad report on vaccines and Fast and Furious, got CPAC award; quit cbs, joined heritage wrote book (issa at bk launch); claimed gov't hacked computer, spooky web video, stuck space bar 172</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Lara Logan Dylan Davies threshold book (Simon & S, owned by CBS) not disclosed. Fox had been using him as src, but quit when he asked for $ 175</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">eventually did 90 sec correction; LL put on leave; book not published (LL conferred with Lindsey Graham, why a problem if she had)?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">trey gowdy angling for fed judge? how does hearings help that? 177</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Chapter 9</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">No Good Deed Goes Unpunished</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">p. 178</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Clinton fdn: laura B, colin powell and murdoch have attended events; chris ruddy newsmax gave 7 figs (million?) 181</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">HC made deal when SoS that she cd recuse form matters that involve CFdn</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">fdn discloses all names, even tho does not have to</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">algeria gave 1/2 mill for haiti earthquake, but HC tough on them after</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">peter schweizer clinto cash bk: HC did favor for (foreign?) funders</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">long history of error eg accused dem sen of inside trading 188 publ by harpercollins , murdoch</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">NYT did fluff/hype on book v(worth 1 mil$?), had an exclusive deal (tho Fax also did?) mention gov't accountability Initiative but did not say gop oppo. proved nothing, fell back on just asking question 198 chronology off; on russia uranium BC fdn disclosed/ but cda affil could not cda law? 199 but fox still does 1 hr special; NYT stood by peter s; Romney claimed HC bribed on the basis. 201</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">NYT is best place to spread disinfo bc of its 9no longer deserved if it ever was, paper of record and all cf chomsky?]</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">in 90's NYT Gerth got whitewater going </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">later cnn analysis found 19 errors of fact ) 192</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">2 yrs later Tyson story belated correction </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">late 90'd Wen Ho Lee alamos story blockbuster but petered out/discounted but not before another GOP attack 193</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Safire (nixon) ~ David Halberstam</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Chapter 10</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">The Romney-ization of Hillary Clinton</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">p. 203</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">HC met alinsky in college</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">UNLV candal 225K$ fee but went to fdn; contract specified hummus for "rock star[M&M practical]</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">clintons very MC when elected, and in 2000 1.8m$ assets but legal debt 10m 209</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">out of law school ngo; married 1975 in living room</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">2015 GPS ww video HC foreign $ narrated " by Eliz warren [not ref to HC?]</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">HC wanted wall st reform like derivatives 216</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Chapter 11</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">E-mails: The Times Strikes Again</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">p. 219</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">jeb published email nit 1/1oth he owned the server. 236</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">NYT story on email left out that prev Sos used private email 224</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">2014 record law took effect 18 mos after HC left</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">scott walker cty exec office used secret email? chris christie</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Chapter 12</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">The Haters and the Enablers</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">p. 238</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">gender</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">bill o had body language expert declare her 'evil" 239</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Andrea Dowd 3/4 cols negative</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Chapter 13</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">The Coming Battle</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">p. 250</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">2014 reid said kochs bught senate</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">kochs 50M$ on data</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Afterword: The House Select Committee on Media Matters</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">p. 267</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">blumenthal - brock said to be conspr but both had published info in books on their relationship</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Today show HC said "vast rw conspiracy' </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">HC faulted for getting advice from blum (rogue intel op" but if gb had gotten wider/better info no gulf war</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Gerth tried to verify: &nbsp;on Bb sunday news show compared to Iran-Contra 272</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">bengh trey g cost at least 3.5M$ &nbsp;blum grilled 9 hrs, almost no question on benghazi</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">sean desmond ed at 12</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Acknowledgments</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">p. 279</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Index</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">p. 283</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">About the Author</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">p. 297</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Review by Publisher's Weekly Review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">The "vast right-wing conspiracy" to destroy Hillary Clinton is back, according to this trenchant j'accuse by an apostate who used to belong to it. Brock gained fame as a conservative journalist with the book The Real Anita Hill, a hatchet job (which he disowns) on the woman who accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment; he's now head of the liberal watchdog outfit Media Matters-parts of the book read like a fund-raising prospectus for the group-and a fervent Clinton-for-president booster. His unabashed mission is to defend Clinton from right-wing detractors such as Rush Limbaugh, the Koch brothers, Fox News, and even some liberal outlets such as the New York Times, which he tars with a longtime anti-Clinton bias. With a media insider's expert eye, Brock details how talking points and innuendos originating from GOP strategists filter down through conservative websites, books, and talk shows and into the mainstream media. He presents lucid, entertaining debunkings of anti-Clinton memes, arguing that she did nothing wrong during the Benghazi attack, broke no e-mail rules as secretary of state, and is neither an out-of-touch elitist nor the man-hating "feminazi" of sexist jibes. Brock's rhetorical venom and naked partisanship will alienate some readers, but his sharp-eyed reporting makes for a spirited challenge to business-as-usual political discourse. (Sept. 15) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">AUTHOR NOTES</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">David Brock was born in 1962 in Washington, D. C. The University of California, Berkeley is his alma mater. He is a widely published author, journalist, and Democratic activist. In 2004, Brock founded Media Matters, the nation's premier media watchdog. Following the 2010 elections, Brock founded the Democratic SuperPAC American Bridge, which is one of the largest modern campaign war rooms ever assembled using research, tracking, and rapid response to defeat Republicans. He is the author of five books, including his 2002 best-selling memoir, Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative. Killing the Messenger, published in (2015, is his current bestseller. His writing appears in USA Today, CNN.com, the Huffington Post, the Daily Beast and Salon. He lives in Washington, D. C.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">(Bowker Author Biography)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">=</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Introduction: Return to Little Rock</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"> -- Building the machine</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"> -- How Democrats got in the game </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">-- The party of Koch</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"> -- The scandal launderers </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">-- Getting ready for Hillary </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">-- How to beat Hillary Clinton </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">-- Showdown at Foggy Bottom </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">-- How Benghazi became #Benghazi</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"> -- No good deed goes unpunished</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"> -- The Romney-ization of Hillary Clinton </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">-- E-mails: the Times strikes again</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"> -- The haters and the enablers </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">-- The coming battle </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">-- The House Select Committee on Media Matters.</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Summary</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">The founder of Media Matters describes his battles with right-wing voices for control of the messages that will decide the 2016 presidential election, and discredits the conservative case against Hillary Clinton.</span></p>
</span></div><div><span>see my ggl doc</span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">==</font></div>