If you're not all in on the Koch bros' "free enterprise philosophies" they might hand your name to their spy agency. https://t.co/BJanlEASws
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) November 18, 2015
Gasp! Free enterprise! Because only the Koch Bros mine intelligence on their political opposition. This is where all that darrrrrk moneyyyyyy’s going, you people. I can haz conspiracy!
The political network helmed by Charles and David Koch has quietly built a secretive operation that conducts surveillance and intelligence gathering on its liberal opponents, viewing it as a key strategic tool in its efforts to reshape American public life.
The operation, which is little-known even within the Koch network, gathers what Koch insiders refer to as “competitive intelligence” that is used to try to thwart liberal groups and activists, and to identify potential threats to the expansive network.
The competitive intelligence team has a staff of 25, including one former CIA analyst, and operates from one of the non-descript Koch network offices clustered near the Courthouse metro stop in suburban Arlington, Va. It has provided network officials with documents detailing confidential voter-mobilization plans by major Democrat-aligned groups. It also sends regular “intelligence briefing” emails tracking the canvassing, phone-banking and voter-registration efforts of labor unions, environmental groups and their allies, according to documents reviewed by POLITICO and interviews with a half-dozen sources with knowledge of the group.
If only journalists put in the same amount of focus and effort to expose the secretive progger big-donor intelligence networks…
(h/t: FreedomRecon)
Consider this an open thread.
