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2014-09-08 International-UN-NGOs

Foreign Powers Buy Influence at U.S. Think Tanks

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Posted by Pappy 2014-09-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 where's that "Master of the bleedin' Obvious" pic?
This gets typespace in the NYT? Some recent journograd dropped the blinders, thought he/she was onto some Kozmik Revelation, and it got past a lazy editor?

note to journo - Yes, that's how it works - as designed.

Posted by Bov Flimbers 2014-09-08 02:32|| 2014-09-08 02:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Foreign Powers Buy Influence at U.S. Think Tanks

Not to be confused with hundreds of thousands of dollar in untraceable credit card donations from overseas to a presidential campaign (circa 2008).

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-09-08 08:03|| 2014-09-08 08:03|| Front Page Top

#3 I checked out one recipient, the Center for Global Development. A gaggle of nonentities, it seems to comprise leftwing academics and out-of-work government hacks. No wonder it needs Norwegian money to survive. Not surprisingly, the introductory photograph was of the Brookings Institution, a gathering of moneygrubbers if there ever was one.

Posted by Beldar Sloque3832 2014-09-08 08:49|| 2014-09-08 08:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Brookings and the M_Brotherhood.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-09-08 09:16|| 2014-09-08 09:16|| Front Page Top

#5 This gets typespace in the NYT? Some recent journograd dropped the blinders, thought he/she was onto some Kozmik Revelation, and it got past a lazy editor?

In this case, two relatively minor staffers and Nicholas Confessore.

Posted by Pappy 2014-09-08 10:40|| 2014-09-08 10:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Not surprising or unexpected considering who runs the "Think Tanks".

I think of them more as Trial Balloons.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-09-08 11:41|| 2014-09-08 11:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Does anyone truly listen to the 'think tanks?'. I know they act as a place politicians recruit from but beyond that I think their influence is limited.

And how much of the foreign power money goes to think tanks that already agree with them? Just like a pro-gun Republican taking donations from the NRA is not exactly bought so much as supported.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-09-08 20:48|| 2014-09-08 20:48|| Front Page Top

#8 They have a lot of influence with the bureaus and agencies, plus places like Congressional staffs and the media.

As for foreign money going to 'agreeable' think tanks: if the latter is agreeable, it's for a price.

Posted by Pappy 2014-09-08 21:45|| 2014-09-08 21:45|| Front Page Top

#9 whores have a price. That's what negotiations are all about

Posted by Frank G 2014-09-08 22:11|| 2014-09-08 22:11|| Front Page Top

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