Here’s some interesting midday reading: Over at Harpers Magazine‘s new blog, Washington editor Ken Silverstein sharpens the focus on a fuzzy period of Jack Abramoff’s biography, his time working with South Africa’s apartheid regime. Everything Jack knew about dirty tricks — “cut-outs, bogus charities, financial trickery, and double- and triple-budgeted projects” — he learned from apartheid-era spooks, Silverstein says. Check it out.
Abramoff Learned His Tricks from Apartheid-era South African Intelligence?
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April 17, 2006 3:40 p.m.
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