Equatorial Guinea

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</div><div><a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/07/27/alecs-pr-man-has-a-dark-past-as-spin-doctor-for-african-dictators/">https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/07/27/alecs-pr-man-has-a-dark-past-as-spin-doctor-for-african-dictators/</a></div><div>
</div><div>American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has a history of

defending controversial and harmful legislation, but the man behind

ALEC’s public relations machine, Bill Meierling, has defended actions

far worse than anything done by ALEC.Two of Africa’s most

notorious dictators hired Meierling to downplay their abuses of power

and build political support for their authoritarian regimes: Equatorial

Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and Democratic Republic of

Congo’s Joseph Kabila.Meierling helped set up the information

ministry of Equatorial Guinea for the country’s tyrant, Obiang, and in

the Democratic Republic of Congo he advocated for Joseph Kabila’s

illegal attempt at a third term as president.A “former member of

ALEC who grew disillusioned with the organization” sourced the materials

for this story to the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), which were

confirmed through Foreign Agent Registration Act filings. Anyone

representing the interests of a foreign government has to register as a

lobbyist and disclose their activities.Meierling officially <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilhelm-meierling-b534a17" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">joined</a>

ALEC in January 2013 as executive vice president for external relations

and strategic partnerships. As head of the group’s spin machine, he has

since retained that role and become the chief marketing officer.

Meierling “<a href="https://www.alec.org/person/wilhelm-meierling/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">manages</a>

crisis response and provides senior level counsel to investor-,

government-, and public relations divisions of Fortune 500 member

companies regarding state and federal advocacy; environmental, social

and governance (ESG) activism; and other concerns.”In Meierling, ALEC found an experienced propagandist who led the organization through a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/03/alec-funding-crisis-big-donors-trayvon-martin" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">donor crisis and member exodus</a> when its promotion of “<a href="https://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Shoot_First_Bills" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Stand Your Ground</a>”

legislation was tied to the death of the unarmed Black teenager Trayvon

Martin. He managed PR when Google’s executive chairman <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/09/22/google-were-parting-with-the-climate-change-skeptics-at-alec/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">said</a>

ALEC was “literally lying” about the climate emergency, and when

corporations again dropped ALEC for its keynote speaker David Horowitz’s

<a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/09/17/verizon-dumps-alec-denounces-speaker-racist/" data-wpel-link="internal">racist and bigoted remarks</a> at a 2018 annual meeting.<h2>Meierling Assisted in Equatorial Guinea Propaganda Campaign</h2>Before joining ALEC, Meierling <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilhelm-meierling-b534a17" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">ran</a> his own PR firm, OpinionMakers International. Through OpinionMakers, he was hired in 2007 as a <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/fara2.opensecrets.org/5789-Exhibit-AB-20070129-1.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">subcontractor</a>

of lobbying firm Cassidy & Associates to work for the Equatorial

Guinea government and President Teodoro Obiang. He was paid handsomely,

raking in $15,000 a month in fees for his firm. Cassidy and Associates

made headlines with their work for Obiang when an executive <a href="https://apjjf.org/-Ken-Silverstein/2461/article.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">bragged</a> about how they were able to get Obiang off Parade Magazine’s top ten list of worst dictators. Obiang only “improved” to being <a href="http://www.dallariva.org/csumba/mba602/Sum08/The%20World's%20Worst%20Dictators.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">ranked</a> the world’s 13th worst dictator.Meierling fondly recounted his time in Equatorial Guinea in an <a href="https://www.lyonspr.com/campaigns/humans-in-pr/bill-meierling-humans-in-pr/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">interview</a>,

saying, “I was brought there in the mid 2000’s to help train them and

help prop up the information ministry within the country.” The Ministry

to which he referred is not so much one of information as it is

propaganda. In its <a href="https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/FOTP%202007%20Full%20Report.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">2007 Freedom of the Press Report</a>,

the organization Freedom House described Equatorial Guinea as having

“virtually no independent media” and stated that “all domestic radio and

television stations are owned directly by the government or by the

president’s family. State-owned media are dominated by sycophantic

coverage of the government and the president.” The country still <a href="https://freedomhouse.org/country/equatorial-guinea/freedom-world/2020" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">ranks at the bottom</a> of Freedom House’s rankings with no independent journalism or freedom of speech.The coverage by state run media is so atrocious, a presidential aide once compared President Obiang to God while on a <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3098007.stm" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">radio interview</a>

in 2003. “He [Obiang] can decide to kill without anyone calling him to

account and without going to hell because it is God himself, with whom

he is in permanent contact, and who gives him this strength,” said the

aide. Obiang uses the state controlled media to stay in office, most

recently <a href="http://saharareporters.com/2016/04/26/equatorial-guinea%E2%80%99s-dictator-win-election-landslide-following-crackdown-media-and-civil" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">in 2016</a> when he won a sham election with over 90 percent of the vote.“It

was just an incredible opportunity to build something from the ground

up and to work in a developing nation with the people and the government

that was really interested in growing, changing, and telling their

story,” Meierling said of <a href="https://www.lyonspr.com/campaigns/humans-in-pr/bill-meierling-humans-in-pr/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">his work</a> in Equatorial Guinea.As part of that job, Meierling specifically worked to spin the dictator’s dismal human rights record.In August of 2007, Meierling <a href="https://efile.fara.gov/docs/5789-Supplemental-Statement-20080204-2.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">wrote</a>

a press release highlighting a visit by the United Nations Working

Group on Arbitrary Detentions and the Equatorial Guinea’s supposed

progress on “deprivation of liberty” and other human rights abuses.Whatever

progress allegedly occurred, however, was short-lived. In October of

2007, opposition party member Salvador Ndong Nguema <a href="https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/af/118999.htm" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">died</a> from injuries after being tortured in prison.Later

in 2010, four political opponents of President Obiang were abducted by

Equatorial Guinean security forces in Benin after fleeing the country

years earlier. They were held in the notorious Black Beach prison, where

they allegedly confessed to a 2009 attempted coup. The military

executed them after a brief military trial. Human rights observers <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2010/08/guinea-ecuatorial-ejecuta-cuatro-hombres/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">viewed the military trial as a sham</a> and believed the men were coerced to confess after being tortured.Meierling also consulted with Equatorial Guinea on the development of its oil industry. In 2008, he wrote a <a href="https://efile.fara.gov/docs/5789-Supplemental-Statement-20080204-2.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">press release</a> for the government highlighting a trip by Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) to the country’s new liquefied natural gas facility. A <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210324020251/https:/digitalstrategies.org/an-introduction-to-digital-strategies-for-healthcare-executives/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">biography</a>

on Meierling for another PR firm that was recently removed described

his work on the project and touted his connections to the Obiang regime.

“When the Republic of Equatorial Guinea and Marathon Oil sought

American support for construction of the world’s largest LNG export

train from Bioko, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea to Elba Island, Georgia, the

African nation’s leadership turned to him,” it said.While the

country’s oilfields have proven to be plentiful, the average citizen of

Equatorial Guinea still lives in poverty. Despite having a per capita

gross domestic product higher than that of Brazil and China, the country

ranks <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/f4d0e2d0-1cc9-11ea-97df-cc63de1d73f4" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">141st out of 189</a> on the United Nations Human Development Index.Meierling has also worked for Obiang’s son, Teodorin, directly. In March, Meierling’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210324020251/https:/digitalstrategies.org/an-introduction-to-digital-strategies-for-healthcare-executives/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">website</a>

listed Teodorin and his girlfriend at the time, Eve, as former clients

for “reputation” management services, but the content has since been

removed.Teodorin has been the subject of numerous corruption

investigations, and has assets have been seized by U.S., French, Swiss,

and Brazilian authorities based on what the U.S. Justice Department

characterized as “<a href="https://www.voanews.com/africa/supercars-houses-and-suits-equatorial-guineas-teodorin-obiang" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">relentless embezzlement</a>.”According to a <a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/FOREIGNCORRUPTIONREPORTFINAL710.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">2010 U.S. Senate investigation</a>,<blockquote>From

2004 to 2008, Teodoro [Teodorin] Nguema Obiang Mangue, son of the

President of Equatorial Guinea, has used U.S. lawyers, bankers, real

estate agents, and escrow agents to move over $110 million in suspect

funds into the United States. Mr. Obiang is the subject of an ongoing

U.S. criminal investigation, has been identified in corruption

complaints filed in France, and was a focus of a 2004 Subcommittee

hearing showing how Riggs Bank facilitated officials from Equatorial

Guinea in opening accounts and engaging in suspect transactions.</blockquote>The

report attributed the success of Obiang and his family’s ability to

embezzle funds to the help they received from numerous lawyers,

lobbyists, and consultants to gain influence.<h2>Meierling Assisted Congo Dictator in Misinformation Campaign to Keep Him in Office</h2>In 2017, while working in his current capacity as chief marketing officer for ALEC, Meierling <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/fara2.opensecrets.org/6476-Short-Form-20171012-4.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">was paid $20,000 per month</a> for public relations work by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Meierling <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/fara2.opensecrets.org/6476-Short-Form-20171012-4.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">described</a>

the work done through a company called How Handy is That LLC as

“strategic communications services” and reported that he would be

“writing for, advising or representing the foreign principal.”<a href="https://efile.fara.gov/docs/6476-Informational-Materials-20180607-1.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Documents</a> disclosed in compliance with the Foreign Agents Registration Act show a series of op-eds appearing in the Washington Times

in 2017, many of which attack Moise Katumbi, a candidate who was

running in opposition to DRC President Joseph Kabila. While the articles

are labeled as “sponsored,” none of them disclose the DRC government as

the sponsor. One of the pieces authored by Meierling describes the

electoral situation in the DRC as follows:<blockquote>As

President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

readies his country and its government for Congo’s next free and fair

national election, some of the very opposition groups with whom he

worked to arrange next year’s vote are coordinating with powerful forces

outside of DRC who are deploying millions of dollars in foreign money

to influence its outcome, undermine its integrity and financially

benefit from its aftermath.</blockquote>Meierling brazenly

misinformed readers about the elections in the DRC when he described

them as being “free and fair.” At the time, Kabila was illegally holding

office, as his constitutionally limited two terms had expired in 2016.Kabila’s government <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/17/drc-delays-election-to-2018-despite-opposition-anger" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">delayed</a>

the presidential election until 2018, claiming to need more time to

update the country’s voter registry. Protests erupted in response to the

delay, and the United Nations <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/17/drc-delays-election-to-2018-despite-opposition-anger" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">reported</a> that government security forces killed 49 protesters.The group Journalists in Danger “<a href="https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Democratic-Republic-of-the-Congo-2018.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">reported</a>

121 cases of attacks on media from November 2017 to October [2018] and

attributed 77 percent of these attacks to government agents, including

nearly half to state security forces.”Meierling is not currently registered as a foreign agent.CMD reached out to ALEC for comment twice for this piece and received no response.</div>==
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</li></ol></div></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.57;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">Sep 20, 2018 - ... in cash and luxury watches from Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, ... is the son of his country's current president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema ...</a></div></div></div></div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">=</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">Rachel Maddow pinpoints the root of all evils: The fossil fuel industry</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">By Jill Dougherty </a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">October 3, 2019 at 10:35 PM EDT</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">Jill Dougherty is a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington and a Centennial fellow at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She covered the White House and State Department for CNN and served for nine years as CNN’s Moscow bureau chief.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">Fulminating comes easy to Rachel Maddow. What sets her apart from other serial fulminators is that she does it with facts — and sardonic wit.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">Her new book, “Blowout,” takes on the fossil fuel industry or, as one person she cites puts it, the “excrement of the devil.” This is not — and who would expect it from Maddow? — an “on the one hand, on the other hand” type of journalistic endeavor. She states her thesis at the outset: The oil and gas industry “is the most consequential, the most lucrative, the most powerful, and the least-well-governed major industry in the history of mankind.”</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">At its heart, this book is a tale of two countries, the United States and Russia, and how, as Maddow sees it — individually and together — they have been warped by a rapacious fossil fuel industry. In her view, almost everything comes back, in the end, to the industry. It’s the “key ingredient in the global chaos and democratic downturn we’re now living through,” she says. The industry is so rich, so “ginormous,” so intertwined with every aspect of our lives and the lives of everyone on Earth that, if you follow the dots, it explains how almost everything in the world works — ultimately, she warns, it will “fatally injure the whole freaking planet.”</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">The book’s title is a technical term for that horrifying moment when, if pressure in an oil or gas well builds and control systems fail, the fuel races back up to the rig and explodes in a fireball. “Blowout” reads like Maddow’s MSNBC monologues, piling outrage on top of outrage, peppered with breathless asides warning of Armageddon: “Hey, in the quest for American energy independence, maybe a few of us have to take one for the team — line up your pets, line up your eighth graders.” You can almost see that finger jab as she drives home the point.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">Maddow’s tale ties together fracking in Oklahoma, Russian “sleeper” spies, the debauched son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, “earthquake swarms,” poisoned pets, the hacker Guccifer, Moammar Gaddafi’s death, a secessionist movement in Texas, but wait, there’s more! Fossil fuels are the world’s cheap high, an international addiction, Maddow argues, creating “such large, up-front, sweat-free gains for connected elites that no one wants to do anything else but chase the oil jackpot.”</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">One of her most outrageous examples is Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, wayward son of Equatorial Guinea’s president-for-life Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. Ensconced in a $30 million mansion in Malibu, Calif., he owned houses around the world, a fleet of luxury cars and a massive yacht, and liked to treat his girlfriends to an afternoon of shopping, giving them $80,000 in $100 bills, forked over from a Nike shoe box stuffed with cash. Oil, you see, had been discovered off the coast, and as a result, a Global Witness report showed, the tiny nation’s oil revenue soared from just $2.1 million in 1993 to $3.9 billion in 2007. Meanwhile, the report said, 77 percent of the population lived in poverty.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">In tracing the industry and its impact on our lives, Maddow begins at the beginning, in 1859, with the discovery of “rock oil” and, a few years later, John D. Rockefeller’s founding of Standard Oil. She takes the story up to today’s inventions — hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling — that have revolutionized extraction and helped launch America on its road to “energy independence.”</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">An inseparable part of America’s fossil fuel history, Maddow points out, are the federal and state tax breaks for the industry, what she calls the “longest running welfare program in the nation’s history.” This spawned a symbiotic relationship, as the fossil fuel industry began to feed on the body politic, eventually creating its own “corporate shadow foreign policy.”</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">The ultimate victims, Maddow says, continue to be average Americans across the country, in thrall to an industry that gives them jobs but threatens their health, even their lives, all the while undermining democracy.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">Russia, without strong democratic institutions, comes off even worse, beset with “the Resource Curse” — abundant energy resources that create enormous cashflows but that crowd out more stable and diversified roads to economic development. The result: “poor governance and high corruption [that result in] devastating economic, health and environmental consequences at the local level, and high incidences of conflict and war.”</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">The culprit, as Maddow sees it, is President Vladimir Putin. Early in his presidency he targeted energy resources as the path to return Russia to its rightful place on the world stage after the ignominious demise of the Soviet Union. That was a worthy goal, and during the George W. Bush administration, when relations with America were more hopeful, Putin calculated that Russia could become an important energy supplier to the United States.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">It didn’t end up that way. Putin’s efforts to restore Russia, Maddow writes, “no longer depend on capacity and know-how. They depend on cheating. Putin and his minions cheat at the financial markets. They cheat at the Olympics. They cheat at their own fake democracy. They cheat other people out of their democracies.”</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">Maddow devotes a large section of “Blowout” to Russia, but it’s not what you might expect from an American writing about America’s nemesis. Yes, there’s an entire chapter devoted to Russian “illegals” — undercover intelligence agents living in the United States as Americans, including Anna Chapman, “billed as a modern seductress worthy of Mata Hari.” And there’s Rex Tillerson, former head of ExxonMobil, who signed a strategic alliance deal between his company and the Russian energy giant Rosneft, and who went on to become President Trump’s secretary of state. And there’s Igor Sechin, head of Rosneft and a member of Putin’s inner circle, described with Maddow’s inimitable style: “When Sechin did smile, he looked like a fairy-tale ogre who had just swallowed a small tasty child.”</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">Her description of Carter Page, foreign policy adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump, is a close second: “The wheels in Page’s head didn’t turn with a great deal of velocity, but they exhibited real stamina.”</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">But Maddow goes deeper, deftly describing the sad truth that Russia and its citizens paid a steep price for Putin’s overreliance on energy: “Now in his twentieth year running the show, Vladimir Putin presides over a metaphysical unforced error: the tragic scuppering of one of the potentially great nations in the world.”</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">Maddow’s sources include some of the best writers on contemporary Russia, including Masha Gessen, Mikhail Zygar, Karen Dawisha, Nina Khrushcheva and Anna Nemtsova. She includes a quote from the world leader who probably knows Putin better than anyone, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in East Germany and speaks Russian: “I understand why he has to do this — to prove he’s a man. He’s afraid of his own weakness. Russia has nothing, no successful politics or economy. All they have is this.”</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">There are a lot of bad guys in this book. But there are a few good ones, too. Like Austin Holland, head seismologist for the Oklahoma Geological Survey, who, under great pressure from the industry and its supporters to stop his research, found that disposal of wastewater from fracking was, indeed, linked to an astounding increase in earthquakes in the state. Eventually, he left his position and headed for New Mexico and a job with the U.S. Geological Survey.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">The real heroes, Maddow says, are the teachers, students and parents in Oklahoma, fed up with the fracking and the earthquakes — more than 100 measuring a magnitude of 3.0 or higher in the state in February 2016 alone — and the tax breaks for the oil and gas industry, even as spending per student plummeted by 24 percent over eight years. Thanks to their protests, the state legislature eventually raised taxes on the industry and put more controls on wastewater.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">Maddow doesn’t think the fossil fuel industry is going away anytime soon, although she says it will eventually: “Coal is dead. As dead as whale oil and kerosene and every other fuel source we once believed we couldn’t live without. Oil and gas are dead, too — only they don’t look sick yet.”</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">The world, she says, must figure out how to get along without them. And, although it seems hard to believe after more than 350 pages of horrors that the industry has inflicted on the environment and geopolitics around the world, Maddow claims that “this is a doable, winnable fight here at home.”</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">In “Blowout,” just like in her MSNBC monologues, Maddow doesn’t shy away from hyperbole: “Democracy either wins this one or disappears.” But we readers have to ask ourselves — is it really hyperbole?</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KLJfigowfDYJ:https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8618-brazil-seizes-16-million-from-e-guinea-s-princeling%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwibmeHHzOPmAhVEXqwKHWy6AqcQIDACegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: currentcolor none 0px;">
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<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Polishing a blood-soaked dictator's image</h2>

According to a May, 2007 article in MotherJones, Cassidy and Associates has worked hard to improve the image of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Equatorial_Guinea&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Equatorial Guinea (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Equatorial Guinea</a>'s President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Teodoro_Obiang&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Teodoro Obiang (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Teodoro Obiang</a>:

"Since 2004, according to Department of Justice reports, Equatorial Guinea has paid Cassidy and Associates at least $120,000 per month to overhaul the country's image. At times, Cassidy almost functions as a shadow foreign ministry for Equatorial Guinea. One longtime Africa observer says that at a recent D.C. event, he saw Cassidy staffers flanking the Equatoguinean ambassador passing her notes throughout her speech. "She was literally in the hands of her handlers," he says. Cassidy has also helped set up a social development fund to channel the country's oil money into welfare projects: "Obiang is intent on improving the country," says <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Juan_Carlos_Benitez&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Juan Carlos Benitez (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: underline; background: none;">Juan Carlos Benitez</a>, who is responsible for Cassidy's Equatorial Guinea account."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cassidy_and_Associates#cite_note-kurlantzick-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a>

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"Equatorial Guinea has one of the world's highest incomes per capita, but in one of the 10 most corrupt nations on earth, little of that money trickles down. Obiang rules the country with an iron fist: According to State Department reports, suspects have been tortured to death and prisoners raped by police. Still, Cassidy has delivered results for Obiang in D.C. 'A few years ago, at least U.S. officials wouldn't talk about the relationship with Equatorial Guinea, or they would admit all the problems and horrible human rights abuses,' says <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frank_Ruddy" title="Frank Ruddy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Frank Ruddy</a>, the former U.S. ambassador to Equatorial Guinea. Now, he adds, 'you would have thought this is Mother Teresa's brother running Equatorial Guinea.'"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cassidy_and_Associates#cite_note-kurlantzick-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a>

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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Until recently, the lead lobbyist for the account was <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein" title="Amos Hochstein" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Amos Hochstein</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cassidy_and_Associates#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a> He left Cassidy and Associates in January 2007 to join Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Christopher_John_Dodd" title="Christopher John Dodd" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Christopher Dodd</a>'s campaign for the U.S. Presidency.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cassidy_and_Associates#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a> In an April 2006 interview with the Washington Post, Hochstein was effusive about Obiang's regime:

"I don't know where The Post got those numbers [about malnutrition in Equatorial Guinea]. I've seen them on the opposition's Web site, but never anywhere else... [Obiang has] convinced me of his deep care for his people. And I've seen the changes. I know that he sent 120 Equato-Guinean nurses to Israel for training. I've seen the kids going to new schools in their blue pants and white shirts."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cassidy_and_Associates#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a>

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Amos Hochstein is a former Washington lobbyist. In January 2007, Hochstein became Policy Director<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> for Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Christopher_John_Dodd" title="Christopher John Dodd" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Christopher Dodd</a>'s (D-Conn.) campaign for the U.S. presidency.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#Previous_appointments" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 Previous appointments</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#Heads_the_Equatorial_Guinea_account_at_Cassidy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.1 Heads the Equatorial Guinea account at Cassidy</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#Training_nurses_in_Israel" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.2 Training nurses in Israel</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#Articles_and_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Articles and resources</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#Sources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.1 Sources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#Resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.2 Resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#Related_SourceWatch.2FCongresspedia_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.3 Related SourceWatch/Congresspedia resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#Articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.4 Articles</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Until Jan. 2007: Executive Vice President at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cassidy_%26_Associates" title="Cassidy & Associates" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cassidy & Associates</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_note-demInAction-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. House of Representatives <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Committee_on_International_Relations" title="House Committee on International Relations" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Committee on International Relations</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_note-demInAction-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member of the professional staff for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=House_Committee_on_Foreign_Relations&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="House Committee on Foreign Relations (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">House Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_note-demInAction-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Legislative Assistant to Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sam_Gejdenson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sam Gejdenson (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sam Gejdenson</a> (D-Conn.)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_note-demInAction-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Worked at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bankers_Trust,_Inc.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bankers Trust, Inc. (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bankers Trust, Inc.</a> (now part of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Deutsche_Bank" title="Deutsche Bank" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Deutsche Bank</a>)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_note-demInAction-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Consultant at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lapidot_PR&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lapidot PR (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lapidot PR</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_note-demInAction-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></li>

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<h3 style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">Heads the Equatorial Guinea account at Cassidy</h3>

Before joining Dodd's campaign team, Hochstein was the lead lobbyist for the account of Equatorial Guinea at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cassidy_and_Associates" title="Cassidy and Associates" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cassidy and Associates</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a> In an April 2006 interview with the Washington Post, Hochstein was effusive about the regime of President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Teodoro_Obiang&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Teodoro Obiang (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Teodoro Obiang</a>:

<dd style=" line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"I don't know where The Post got those numbers [about malnutrition in Equatorial Guinea]. I've seen them on the opposition's Web site, but never anywhere else... [Obiang has] convinced me of his deep care for his people. And I've seen the changes. I know that he sent 120 Equato-Guinean nurses to Israel for training. I've seen the kids going to new schools in their blue pants and white shirts."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></dd>

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The malnutrition figures that Hochstein challenged had been published in a Post editorial a few days beforehand. The editorial did not cite its sources.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a>

<h3 style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">Training nurses in Israel</h3>

The training program for nurses referred to by Hochstein was announced in a July 2005 press release, on the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Guinea-equatorial.com&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Guinea-equatorial.com (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">guinea-equatorial.com</a> website:

<dd style=" line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"The government of Equatorial Guinea announced today that it was beginning a major new health care capacity-building program in conjunction with Tel Aviv's Shiba Hospital, Israel's largest hospital center, to train 120 Equato-Guinean nurses and create a domestic training capability... The entire program is being funded by the government of Equatorial Guinea."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></dd>

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"Shiba" is a misprint: the training arrangement was actually with Sheba Hospital.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_note-gradPressRelease-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a> The first group of nurses graduated in February 2006. According to a guinea-equatorial.com press release,

<dd style=" line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"Ms. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Yardena_Ovadia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yardena Ovadia (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Yardena Ovadia</a>, the honorary consul of Equatorial Guinea in Israel, who was second guest of honor in the graduation ceremony, said that the end of this course is the beginning of fulfilling the vision of the President of Equatorial Guinea, His Excellency Teodoro Obiang Nguema, to bring the best, state of the art, western medicine to the benefit of the citizens of the country."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_note-gradPressRelease-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></dd>

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In December 2006, Haaretz reported that a retired gynecologist, Professor Yardena Ovadia, had been among a number of senior gynecologists at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva who had admitted falsifying experimental data. It is not known if this is the same individual as the Equato-Guinean honorary consul.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a>

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<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2007/4/26/183229/509" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Democratic Presidential Debate Thread</a>", Booman Tribune (blog), April 26, 2007</li>

<li id="cite_note-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cassidy.com/press/pressdetail.asp?Id=61" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Amos Hochstein to Join Presidential Campaign</a>", press release, Cassidy and Associates, January 16, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-demInAction-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_ref-demInAction_3-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:3.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_ref-demInAction_3-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.1</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_ref-demInAction_3-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.2</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_ref-demInAction_3-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.3</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_ref-demInAction_3-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.4</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_ref-demInAction_3-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.5</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gwu.edu/_{action/2008/dodd/doddorg.html}" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Key People-Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT)</a>", <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Democracy_in_Action&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Democracy in Action (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Democracy in Action</a> website, last updated May 14, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Ken Silverstein, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/08/sb-obiangs-banking-again-1155053056" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Obiang's Banking Again: State Department and Washington insiders help a dictator get what he wants</a>", Harpers Magazine, August 9, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Michael Grunwald, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/21/AR2006042101754.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">A conversation with Amos Hochstein</a>", Washington Post, April 23, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/17/AR2006041701368.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">With Friends Like These... Condoleezza Rice's inglorious moment</a>", Washington Post, April 18, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_ref-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guinea-equatorial.com/news.asp?docID=23" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">New Program To Train 120 Nurses, Create Domestic Medical Training Capability</a>", press release, guinea-equatorial.com, July 28, 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_ref-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.msr.org.il/Media_Coverage/151.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Nursing Skills Training for Nurses from Equatorial Guinea</a>" (press release), Israel Center for Medical Simulation, January 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-gradPressRelease-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_ref-gradPressRelease_9-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:9.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_ref-gradPressRelease_9-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">9.1</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://guinea-equatorial.com/news.asp?DocID=47" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Equato-Guinean Nursing Students Complete Advanced Training Program In Israel</a>", press release, guinea-equatorial.com, February 22, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amos_Hochstein#cite_ref-10" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Ran Reznick, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/798156.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Top gynecologists published false data from experiments</a>", Haaretz, December 7, 2006.</li>

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