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K Street Goes Cloak and Dagger

By Paul Kiel - February 16, 2007, 3:16PM

BusinessWeek provides a glimpse into what you might call the dark side of lobbying (OK, maybe the darker side). Teaser: it involves a blue-chip Republican lobbying firm, a "private intelligence" firm backed by conservative heavy-hitters, and a former British agent thieving secret corporate documents under a fake name.

Now that's what I call muck.

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1watt wrote on February 16, 2007 5:46 PM:

And remind me again why there is no RICO investigation of the RNC.

Node of Evil wrote on February 16, 2007 5:49 PM:

And once again the Carlyle Group rears its ugly head:

'A person familiar with Diligence says the firm's shareholders are CEO Day, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Burt, Edward Mathias of Washington-based private equity firm Carlyle Group, and Buenos Aires private equity firm Exxel Group. Burt confirms he is Diligence's chairman but declines to discuss Project Yucca. Mathias confirms he is an investor in Diligence but says he is unaware of the Bermuda events. Exxel Group lists Diligence among its portfolio companies on its corporate Web site but did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment.'

They are, as James Brown once said, "...comin' from some funny places...".

Mrs Panstreppon wrote on February 17, 2007 8:51 PM:

"GOPMARKETPLACE.COM ANNOUNCES VENTURE
CAPITAL AGREEMENT WITH HELM PARTNERS, LLC

August 7, 2000…Alexandria, VA. HELM Partners, LLC, an investment partnership headed by Haley Barbour, Lanny Griffith, and Ed Rogers of Barbour, Griffith and Rogers and Edward Mathias, managing director of The Carlyle Group and GOPMarketplace, LLC have today announced they have entered into a joint venture capital agreement to provide a politically oriented teleservice exchange."

http://web.archive.org/web/20011025185809/www.gopmarketplace.com/NEWS1.html

GOP Marketplace was run by Allen Raymond who was convicted in the Republican NH phone jamming scandal.

Edward Mathias also contributed along with the notorious Howard S. Rich to a new "grassroots" political advocacy group named Unity 08. Keep your eye on this creepy operation because it has to be up to no good.

http://www.unity08.com/donors

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