[Salon] 3 from RS: CIA, MLK & Foreign Dark Money

[Kelley Vlahos <vlahos@quincyinst.org>]

Good morning!

My latest on this 61st Anniversary of Eisenhower's Military Industrial Complex speech is a point about how he exempted covert ops from his warning. I flesh this out with great quotes from Stephen Kinzer, a round-up of all the CIA sins in the 50s from Ted Snider, and the latest on what the CIA knew about Harvey Lee Oswald before Nov. 22, 1963. Check it out: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/01/17/what-ikes-military-industrial-complex-speech-didnt-say/

Also, William Hartung reminds us that while MLK's 1967 Vietnam speech drew criticism it was eerily prescient of today's crisis of democracy, spurred by endless wars abroad: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/01/17/dr-king-warned-us-about-the-endless-wars-we-now-find-ourselves-in/

And lastly, Ben Freeman notes that while the DOJ seems to have a lot of juice for going after operatives and lobbyists illegally working on behalf of foreign governments, no one seems eager to go after the big guns. Why? https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/01/17/in-dark-foreign-influence-ops-time-to-take-down-chess-masters-as-well-as-pawns/

All the best for a great day,

Kelley V