Thread from one of the men targeted:
Seems like politics these days. I don't think we need hundreds of people searching for dirt on the EPA director day and night either.
More evidence that conservatives assume other political officials are as corrupt as they are.
These guys have no problem destroying the lives (or attempting to destroy the lives) of private citizens if it gets them the PR win they want. It's gross.
And yeah, I'd really like to know who paid for this.
The documents show that Black Cube compiled detailed background profiles of several individuals, including Rhodes and Kahl, that featured their addresses, information on their family members, and even the makes of their cars. Black Cube agents were instructed to try to find damaging information about them, including unsubstantiated claims that Rhodes and Kahl had worked closely with Iran lobbyists and were personally enriched through their policy work on Iran (they denied those claims); rumors that Rhodes was one of the Obama staffers responsible for “unmasking” Trump transition officials who were named in intelligence documents (Rhodes denied the claim); and an allegation that one of the individuals targeted by the campaign had an affair.
The campaign is strikingly similar to an operation that Black Cube ran on behalf of Harvey Weinstein, which was reported in The New Yorker last fall. One of Weinstein’s attorneys, David Boies, hired Black Cube to halt the publication of sexual-misconduct allegations against Weinstein. Black Cube operatives used false identities to track women with allegations, and also reporters seeking to expose the story. In May, 2017, a former Israel Defense Forces officer, who had emigrated to Israel from the former Yugoslavia, was working as an undercover agent for Black Cube. The woman contacted the actress Rose McGowan, claiming to work for Reuben Capital Partners but using the identity of a Diana Filip. Filip’s e-mails to McGowan displayed the same tactics as those in the e-mails sent to Norris and Kahl, and in some cases used almost identical language. (Filip also wrote to me from Reuben Capital Partners, and again used similar language.)
Rhodes said that the campaign represented a troubling situation in which public servants were being targeted for their work in government. “This just eviscerates any norm of how governments should operate or treat their predecessors and their families,” he said. “It crosses a dangerous line.”
The Iranians NEVER signed any deal. It was all pay for play Fiat for Obama’s legacy and to fill a foundations coffers.
Gee, I wonder where we have seen this shell game before.
You fucking collection of goof-balls
Btw, horse-head Kerry is the one who violated the Logan Act
Thread from one of the men targeted:
At least six prominent defenders of women's rights in Saudi Arabia were detained this week, six weeks before the kingdom's ban on women from driving is due to be lifted June 24.
Activist Loujain al-Hathloul was arrested at her home on Tuesday evening, according to Amnesty International. She campaigned against the decades-old driving ban and ranked No. 3 in a list of the most powerful Arab women for her work.
Amnesty International named three other women who were detained as Eman al-Nafjan, who became widely known for her activism; Aziza al-Yousef, a fellow leader in the campaign to drive; and Aisha al-Manea, who campaigned for women's right to drive since the early '90s. She is a 70-year-old who survived a heart attack last year, according to Australian-based Saudi activist Manal al-Sharif.
At midnight on Saturday, a "smear campaign" began, said Amnesty. Six activists, believed to be the same ones that were arrested, and another individual, were accused in state media of forming a "cell" that threatened Saudi security. Activists were alleged to have "contact with foreign entities with the aim of undermining the country's stability and social fabric," according to the organization. A hashtag, "Agents of Embassies," and a graphic featuring the activists' faces, spread on social media.